“I could have done more” Could you really? If it truly is so, then please answer me one question: WHY DIDN’T YOU? Oh yes. You just didn’t. You say: “I could have done more but I DIDN’T.” You say you will have done more the next time. Now there is the past, the present …
Tag: Psychology
Excuses Only Indicate Confusion
You have many excuses not to do something. But you want to do this thing. Or you “have to” do this thing. You use excuses to escape the doing of the thing, the doing of something. You find temporary comfort in the lie of your excuse. Until you realise your excuse was… well – just …
Blind Spots Will Persist Until You Actually SEE
Blind Spots Will Persist Until You Actually SEE “Blind spots” make you stupid. Blind spot is when you don’t see a simple fact, a simple solution, etc. You accept that when the problem is difficult – you will make mistakes. But you don’t understand why you sometimes fail to see the simplest solutions, …
What You Think You Want
There is only what you DO. You only do what you WANT. If you don’t want someting you don’t do it. If you don’t do something that is because you don’t want it. The problem of not doing something that you want is merely you not really wanting it. The problem of wanting something, …
Replacing One Word with Another Misses The Point
Some gurus and coaches and whoever else will tell you to replace certain words in your vocabulary with better ones. It’s a trick. A lovely trick. See, thoughts comprise of words. You think in words. Words, which are mental images. But you don’t just think in any mental images — you think in words. Your …
Totality Of The Present Has To Be Experienced – And Not Understood
You can’t merely convince yourself to the totality of the present. You saw that time brings about the endless strife, the endless becoming which is the endless incompleteness, endless dissatisfaction. You know the burden of having to be something, become something, do something, over and over and over again. And you saw that this …
“Hard Work” is a Thought-Terminating Cliche
“Hard work” is a thought-terminating cliche. Thought-terminating cliche is some common saying, that is used to simplify the subject and avoid further considerations. You’d expect a thought-terminating cliche to occur when the reflections on the subject exceed someone’s aptitude in the matter. You can definitely expect a thought-terminating cliche when there is cognitive dissonance …
REWIRE
We are wired to stimulation, wired to instant gratification, wired to pleasure – and this noxious addiction makes our lives dull and shallow. Drug addiction is simply pleasure addiction. If you are addicted to pleasure – you are an addict – and you are no different to a drug addict. Overindulgence only brings …
Two Types Of Problems
There are two types of problems, Inner and outer, Lasting and temporary, Esoteric and exoteric, Real and unreal, There are inner problems, which are the fundamental problems of human condition. There are the outer problems, which are based on a particular, unique, outside situation. There are inner problems, which pertain to this whole miracle …
“Fake It Till You Make It” Doesn’t Mean “Be Dishonest”
“Fake it till you make it” doesn’t mean “be dishonest”. “Fake it till you make it” doesn’t mean “be a fraud”. “Fake it till you make it” doesn’t mean “lie to people”. “Fake it till you make it” doesn’t mean that you made it. “Fake it till you make it” is a brilliant psychological …