Stinking Thinking Makes Hope A Dope

Written by Richard Vegas


Many centuries ago there was a Greek philosopher who lived onrepparttar Aegean Sea and wanted to go to Carthage. He was a very well educated professor of logic, so he decided he should dorepparttar 123693 very thing he taught his students. Hmmm….What was it?

Have you ever heard you are what you think? Well, ok then, I'm a Cadillac. :>). Nah…that's notrepparttar 123694 kind of thinking I talking about. What do you really think you are? Hmm…Just how organized and orderly are your thoughts? How straight is your thinking? How clean are your thoughts? Uh oh…now I've stopped teaching and gone to meddling. :>)

You see, there are certain mental patterns of thoughts that invaderepparttar 123695 thinking of almost everyone, evenrepparttar 123696 most genius of people. Negative emotions, beliefs, passions, and habits all become entangled in these patterns.

Sometimes you discover habits you would really like to correct. Sometimes you are strongly tempted to do wrong. And, then like a bug caught in a spider web you start kicking and fighting to get free.

What is happening? Your conscious will has found itself in opposition with your imagination, or emotions. And you feelrepparttar 123697 fangs of that black widow spider trying to suckrepparttar 123698 blood out of you. The more you kick,repparttar 123699 tighter that web gets andrepparttar 123700 deeper those fangs go.

Ok, hot shot, so what do I do?

Well, I'm glad you asked. Some people just give up and we all know whatrepparttar 123701 black widow does torepparttar 123702 bug that gives up, right?

The human analogy of that is a mental torture. Other people learn to userepparttar 123703 power of their subconscious mind and they get to eatrepparttar 123704 spider. That sounds tasty, uh?

We know that a bug may not be able to keep from being trapped in a spider web. And, once he is caught, it's pretty much history for that bug. But, we humans have absolute control over spider webs (thought patterns) that entrap us.

Because, we don't have to be trapped by our thoughts and can free ourselves from any undesirable thought pattern. But, to free ourselves we must use reason, in other words our logic.

Ah!! But, here'srepparttar 123705 rub.

We don't use reason alone. One ofrepparttar 123706 fallacies of our thinking is to assume we always use logic. Not so.

In reality every conscious decision isrepparttar 123707 result of what we want to do. We make our own decisions.

When we are reasoning with our logic, we haverepparttar 123708 ability to reach conclusions that are most favorable torepparttar 123709 strong inner urges of our subconscious mind. And this ability is present in everyone, evenrepparttar 123710 smartest of people.

I'm getting there…I didn't forget him…:>)

I know, you want to know about our professor? Well, remember he wanted to go to Carthage. So, he studiedrepparttar 123711 reasons he should go andrepparttar 123712 reasons he should not go. What he discovered was this; that for every reason as to why he should go, he discovered as many reasons he should not go.

Today Could Be Your Last -- Act Like It !!

Written by Miami Phillips


One thing is absolutely for sure in this life. You are not going to make it out alive! If we say we will make it 75 years as an average (a guess on my part), then you can count how many springs you have left. For me, this spring means I have 28 more springs to enjoy! How about you?

Sometimes we can get so caught up in working and worrying about tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today. I mean enjoy today like there will be no tomorrow!

Inrepparttar real world, all we can do about tomorrow is to set some intentions of where you might like to be, consciously make every choice you can based on your values, and leaverepparttar 123692 rest of it up torepparttar 123693 Universe and God. We, as a people, tend to try and controlrepparttar 123694 future; but this is joke! If you really consider how little control you have, you would spend much less time worrying and more time staying here, inrepparttar 123695 present moment.

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