Everyone wants to enjoy life, to engage in pleasure fulfillment of various kinds. All people are distracted by the pleasure trap. But many people focus mostly on enjoyment and put other things second, like morality. There is a pleasure-trap of “feel-good” comfort that is desired as an inner state to be attained and sought after, as “well-being” is highly desired. […]
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How much courage do we have to honestly face uncomfortable aspects of ourselves, like when we do something wrong? Can we honestly take responsibility for the actions we do? Or are we too attached to ourselves to be able to honestly see what we are doing? Your actions reflect you at the time. You can change and no longer do […]
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Someone once commented on a Facebook post of mine: “Research suggests that logical arguments and facts are not what drives change. What really matters is how we make others feel.” Emotions can lead us to accept or reject valid information. This is true. Most people want you to make them “feel-good” about themselves or what you’re talking about. What your […]
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Happiness is a delusion? No, not necessarily, but it can be. Controversial title? Yes. What does controversy mean? Let’s start with this side topic before we get to the title of the post, as it is directly linked to it.Latin contra means “opposite, face-to-face, against”. Latin versus/versare means to “change or alter, to turn, turn back, be turned, convert, transform, […]
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Ideas captivate our imagination. Ideas, concepts and beliefs are strewn with portraits, snapshots, paintings or film that consciousness creates to visualize them. We may think we are holding onto an idea, yet it’s often the ideas that have us in their grasp and we are shaped by them. Ideas captivate. They are light bulbs (bright idea) that attract us to […]
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Our consciousness perceives objects, events and phenomena in existence. Thoughts and emotions feedback, as internal manifestations of consciousness, to process information stimulus from our environment. Our thoughts and emotions unite to produce our actions. We output a response as action or behavior, the external manifestation of consciousness. To be united in consciousness requires that we think, feel and act in […]
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People do not really seem to want to think much. But, they sure do seem to want to feel much, feel-good that is. Satisfying a focus on emotional desires overrides the capacity to think and act properly, as they become secondary to the emotional influence. This is especially so for those who do not have a concern with thinking, and […]
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Infatuation with concepts, ideas and images in our mind seems to be a big thing; whatever is novel, fantastic, and wonderful to believe in is accepted by many people. That’s why the New Age fantasy narrative is so attractive and mesmerizing. Being made a fool. Just like the false love of infatuation, you can be fooled by an idea being […]
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This woman explains the need to FEEL the emotions of GUILT and SHAME for the sins we commit. The emotions are our compass in life. Emotions and CARE are our driving force, the spirit in which we do things. Many people do not want to listen to how they are a part of creating evil in the world. Develop your […]
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Failure to understand how we function, as a component of who we are, places us in a position where we are susceptible to manipulation and mind control. Understanding the basic functionality of the brain brings us closer to becoming a being that governs ourselves and less subject to the influence of those attempting to commandeer our mind and behavior.
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