“When somebody masters this triangle game, they realize the game is life scenarios. Every day we play this position, not to play that position. Each position is attachment, each position is a mask. We wear the mask when we play this, again and again. Life is a stage, life is a play. Why not play well? Why not enjoy each position rather than suffer from the position? Or feel a victim of every position that you play? Why be so attached to each position that we play, rather than look at it as life is a play, and enjoy the play and be the best actor or actress in each position. Now, every day that we wake up, we put on a mask to play a position. During the day we switch the masks back and forth. When you come back at home at night, do you have the courage and wisdom to take off the mask? Are you able to catch yourself when you attach to any of the positions that you play during the day?”

Ian Hislop (Stress, Distress and Illness, 1991) wrote …

“A retired seaman, aged 64 years, presented with a recurrence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding from a duodenal ulcer. Nine years earlier his 28-year-old son had lost his life in a shipping disaster. Each year since then, as the anniversary time approached, he would ruminate over the loss of the boy and would imagine him fighting for his life as the ship sank. Four times in the ensuing 8 years a similar bleeding episode has occurred in the month of June, on each occasion within 10 days of the date of his son’s death. Since this time he had also bled twice in October, close to the date of his daughter’s death some years earlier.”

“Sustained synchrony of organized correspondences between adult speech and neonate body movement at this microkinesis level within epochs of less than a second raises issues about the nature of communication, and particularly about the role of auditory function in development.”

“A contemporary linguist, E.H. Sturtevant, presents a novel theory which, though slightly paradoxical, has its merits. Since all real intentions and emotions, he says, get themselves involuntarily expressed by gesture, look or sound, voluntary communication, such as language, must have been invented for the purpose of lying or deceiving. People forced to listen to diplomatic jargon and political double-talk will be tempted to agree.”

“The man who lies in his verbal utterances betrays himself, without observing it, in his demeanor. One who uses demeanor to dissimulate with betrays himself in his tone. It is precisely because rigid speech separates means and intent that it never carries it off with the keen appraiser. The adept reads between the lines and understands a man as soon as he sees his walk or his handwriting.”