4.3 Misuse of Language, Harmful Thoughts, and Winds That Come and Go

So many of our problems come from misuse of language — “What is the meaning of life?” — Not possible without language — Like the memory of a wind that came and went — Questions of self-worth — At some point in the past — Need to be responsible with language — Any idea can potentially live forever — Self-defeating and other-defeating ideas — Ruthless — Mosquitoes — Getting rid of deeply seated thoughts — “A high standard” — Nonsense thinking about perfection — Emotional self-abuse — Physical effects — No difference — Another basic flaw — “Failure” and “success” can only apply to a process that has come to a conclusion — Aiming at the Moon — All part of the journey there — The only real failures — Our ways of abusing language are multiplying — An imaginative exercise — If you want to suffer more — Come up with new levels of gradation re: failure — A destructive type of thinking — Better ways — Pierre Estève: “Time is on our side.”