"'As the Buddha said two and a half thousand years ago,' he said, soon after we'd started talking, and jabbing a finger in my direction, 'we're all out of our fucking minds! That's just the way we are.'"
-Oliver Burkeman, talking about Albert Ellis in The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
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Many years ago (the '80s) I had the pleasure to attend one of Albert Ellis' public events at his institute in NYC. I think we all paid $10 to get in and see him do his thing. As I recall, he had a few people from the audience get up front with him and he pointed out how much of their problem was how they were thinking about things. He gave them all the "what for" as I recall. Very matter of fact. He had been doing his thing for many years at that point. E.
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