He instinctively knew that we don’t just have our stories, we embody them. We are our stories.

When you speak, you are literally joining two worlds.

Even though your judgements aren’t the truth, you can make them with rigorous ‘grounding’.

You’ll overcome this reaction by letting yourself have it fully, not by running away from it. If you do, it will chase you.

Like Lou said, you must go into your automatic emotions rather than flee from them.