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Reassurance, like offence, is taken not given.
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.
Freud, who spoke German, used the term zwangsneurose (obsessional neurosis). The word zwang was translated as 'obsession' in London, but 'compulsion' in New York. Faced with confusion, scientists introduced the hybrid term 'obsessive-compulsive', a label subsequently given to millions of people, as a compromise.
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.
Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.
It felt good to say those things out loud. It was a relief to free them from my head and expose them to the light.
If you can't be good, be good at it!
