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Book cover for Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain, 2nd Edition
The stories we develop about our lives and ourselves can be deadly to our mental health because we start to interpret random events in a biased way.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Joyce Rachelle
“Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.”
Joyce Rachelle

Jaka Tomc
“We are like chess players who are trying to predict the opponent’s future moves, but in this case, we are dealing with life itself. True masters do not play the game on a single chessboard, but on multiple chessboards at the same time. And what’s the difference between grandmasters and masters? Surprises. The moves that cannot be predicted by the opponent. Life can play a simultaneous game with seven billion people at the same time and it can take each and every one of us by surprise. And we still believe we are capable of winning, because we can predict three of four moves ahead. We are insignificant.”
Jaka Tomc, 720 Heartbeats

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

John C. Lilly
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experientially and experimentally. When the limits are determined, it is found that they are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits. The body imposes definite limits.”
John C. Lilly, The Deep Self: Consciousness Exploration in the Isolation Tank

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