Sue Moon’s Blog

When neurotics come to you for help, they seldom seek to be healed, for healing is painful.  What they really want is to be made comfortable in their neuroses.  Or, best of all, they yearn for a miracle that will heal them painlessly.

“The old man dearly loved his after-dinner pipe.  One night his wife smelled something burning and shouted, ‘For heaven’s sake, Pa!  You’ve set your whiskers on fire!’

‘I know it’, answered the old man angrily.  ‘Can’t you see I’m praying for rain?’

-The Song of the Bird-Anthony De Mello