The False Refuge of Approval

There's a sense always of maybe Freud would call super ego, but that in some way there's a monitor going on of how we're doing. There's that monitor and false refuge trying to be the one who will get approval. And then we take refuge in compulsive thinking, and most of us do. We pedal fast and faster and faster in our thoughts. The things that would really matter to us of loving well without holding back, of being creative, of appreciating the moments are here.