“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than wearing a… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego here, buddy, but this… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Teach them the shame that tells the lie, “I am unforgivable,” when the truth is, “I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
