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"Frustration at any level of development stops growth, sending the child back to a level of adjustment suitable only to a lower age group. This process of seeking satisfaction in more infantile activities is called regression... But in childhood, regression is not temporary and may be a serious block to the growing- up process... Childhood regressions persist into adult life... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:1) "So now... you should be able... to interpret any compulsions and obsessions that prevent your enjoying your life... (and) when you seek to track down your neurotic trends, you will help yourself by writing a little autobiography." (Try this!) (D. Fink - Psych) (63:2) "Once you have made your decision, act the part of the person whom you have decided to become... Every attitude must reinforce your purpose... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:3) "Let a man do what he really wants to do, and he will have all the 'will power' that he requires. Activities that appeared attractive and seductive become boring and stupid, once they interfere with the main purposes of his life. What people call will power is simply the organization of habits around some central purpose. (D. Fink - Psych) (63:4) "Excessive use of alcohol is easy to stop the minute you have a reason for eliminating drink... When a man finds himself, he loses his way to the liquor store." (D. Fink - Psych) (63:5) "Act servile, and you'll be a slave, and what is worse, you'll like it, and you will start to invent reasons to justify your master's superiority. Act like a queen, and you will feel like one. You will believe in yourself and, acting on your belief, you will do the things that lead to success. (D. Fink - Psych) (63:6) "Your attitudes are the higher- ups, the big shots, in your mental life," (life of the rational man, that is). "They are the habits that sit in the driver's seat. Thy control your lesser habit patterns. When you can boss them, you are in control of your own life. You become invulnerable, and nothing can hurt you... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:7) "Anything to which you attach your interests becomes a part of your personality..., an extension of yourself. By adjusting to... group life, you build up your larger concepts of right and wrong, of purpose in life and the meaning that life holds for you. Through social living and identification, your create habitual responses in group life. Let us agree to call these general habitual responses your attitudes... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:8) "Your attitudes, then, are not only an organization of habits acquired in previous adjustments. They are springs of action. They decide what you pay attention to or even notice... Your attitudes are you." (D. Fink - Psych) (63:9) Patient cited "recovered from the nervous condition only after he had experienced something like a religious conversion, during which he created a new set of values... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:10) "A normal man or woman" (true Baha'i ? ) "feels at home in this jumbled and confused and disorderly world. He is like an architect who, amidst the piles of lumber, the groaning of the cement mixer, the pounding of hammers, the confusion of each trade intent on its job, still has before him the blueprint and has in his mind a picture" of what he is trying to build. (D. Fink - Psych)
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