by S.D. Sommerfeld

Created on: February 02, 2009

Transcendence is when your spirit soars because you have lost the lie. Sometimes when we wrap our minds around the beauty of what is surrounding us we are able to see. When we know the size of everything and how many moments are in a day, just then, we are able to feel that elusive "knowing that we are ok."

Fear is what is felt when you lose the truth. It begins in that moment that you sit and doubt something. Anything can be in doubt. Anything can be misunderstood. It is any lie that you've been told or have told yourself. It matters not if you made it up or not. It matters not whether you believe it or are only weighing the probability of the lie being true. The result is the same for fear of death or a simple doubt of the worth of one's own minor self affirmational pride, like "am I pretty?" The result is always the same. Even fear of death is doubt of one's own ability to survive.

You can argue that there is a firm reason to ever doubt a thing. You can argue it logically all day long. But can you ever prove to me that doubting a thing has ever helped anyone do anything better? The truth to the matter of "should I or should I not doubt" is the same as the argument "to be or not to be." We simply must go and be what we are. We must unharness the animal inside. Yes, we are the human animal. Yep, we have a brain. But all that we seem to be using it for is driving ourselves insane.

If we spend all of our time doubting something then what parts of our time are we spending thinking about how to live happily? "As we think; so we live." Is always thinking and living to live through the worst case scenario going to leave much room for happiness? I checked on that one; it's a big fat NO. What is left but to stop worrying? That is my logical answer. If someone wants to be happy they just have to stop worrying. I think the common problem is that people were hardly taught what kind of thoughts to replace worry thoughts with.

I like to do some reprogramming of my thoughts through meditating on certain ideas. It helps me immensely to remember that everything happens for a reason; that all reasons are part of a mysterious great spiritual-of-the-physical everything that is moving perfectly. I like to think about what I want to do today without being distracted by doubt. I find that this is sometimes an incredible challenge. Until I remember that I cannot find the happiness of living without taking some risks. I do believe it is wise to calculate a risk. This is so important

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