MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid motion of current events.
Obsessive thoughts are never happy since they ponder the impossibility of success as they are bound to fail. Thinking of itself, when thought to be reality, thinks up more thoughts obsessed with them-selves thinking someday, somehow this vain effort and narrow focus will become true. This thinking is called self-serving and self-centered when it is actually thought-serving and thought-centered. Obsessive thinking only thinks of itself to prop up an image having no other basis than thought. While we are free to imagine we are only what we think the resulting complications cause the magnificently insurmountable peaks and valleys of rising, falling and failing effort. Lies can never become true or they would not be lies. “Happy ever after fantasies” are never turned into reality no matter how hard we try to feel good about the wrong thinking we’re managing.
Thinking is something we do and we cannot be what we do. Obsessive attempts to realize the impossible create insatiable drives that can never be satisfied. Conflicted thinking fractures into symptomatic forms of addiction that grow so varied we can never attend to each sufficiently. Anxious disorders are also symptoms of reactive, impulsive and compulsive behaviors as weighty yarns spun on the same loom of doom. Things that appear real are no more than delusions: illusions imagined real. Once fantasy is imagined to be reality insanity is in full bloom. We do not need to be fully incapacitated to engage empty thoughts that are naturally faulty. If we can think it possible to fix each symptom it may come as great relief to recognize they are all byproducts of one problem.
Reality and Truth are not born of thought and neither are we. Reality and Truth do not come or go. All that is Real and True is present, presently here now, as we always are regardless of what or how we think. To think we are unstable is to witness the instability and impositions of thought we choose and so induce their effects.
What we think - we think. There are no exclusions to this point. We are free, intact, ready and able. If we were not we would not be so free as to think what we think could condemn us. Freedom allows impressions we hold dear to cause depression. To use freedom to create condemnation is to act divisively against our instinctual urge to thrive and survive.
Few ever fight to be wrong. Few plead to feel worse or think more negatively. Struggles with reactive, impulsive, or compulsive behaviors never lack willingness. Turning principles into liabilities to prove wrong is right is to have hope in faithlessness that can never “carry the weighty day”. Prayer is the same. To pray to thought as though it is reality is to think ego is our creator and praying endlessly for lies to be true never works. Thinking we don’t know better is a thought. We know we know as we well know how to pronounce what is wrong.
Any obsessive case can't apply enough effort to have things work smoothly while failure’s success is automatic. Yet working in concert with reality is productive and beneficial since it always works it is easily reapplied with little thought. Acting on spiritual principles confirms, aligns and fulfills our inherent functional capacity.
Choices reflect our will and they are a prayer for what we want. Consequences are the answers we seek. We need not wait till burial in earth to rely on what is assured and rest in peace on earth.
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