Article January 23, 1989 Issue

Stop analyzing and start healing!

Analyzing "what's wrong" from a material basis may only lead us further from the spiritual truth that heals.

Alexis Deacon

I was at work. A woman in my office began muttering to me about a man we work with: "He's critical. He's unloving. And he constantly makes unfair demands on us."

As I listened, I mentally did a little of my own analysis of this man. The reason he was so critical and unloving, I reasoned, was that he didn't really love himself. That's why he criticized others so quickly—to make himself feel better.

I thought I had it all figured out. But instead of feeling satisfied with my reasoning, I felt disturbed by it.

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