This is an email to a friend:

I was doing a coaching session tonight, with someone whose mind was troubling them. We spoke about ‘the voices’ and all of ‘their bad advice’ as Mary Oliver puts it.

“What do you do?” she asked. “They are so persistent.”

“Yes,” I replied,” and we take them so seriously, as if we are in a war with them, on the front line. “

I suggested she could respond to the voices in the way you described the other day, up at your place: “Thank you for sharing, and I’m moving on now..” She thought that was very funny and wise, and we both sat there, laughing about it, for quite a few minutes. I think this is one of my favourite things: learning to laugh at the mind, and all of it’s cunning tricks. Sometimes, finding our way in this labyrinth is so much easier and simpler than we have ever imagined.