Comments on: New Years Resolution: If Only… http://hildygottlieb.com/2008/01/01/new-years-resolution-attending-to-the-if-only%e2%80%99s/ Practical tools, support and inspiration for changing the world Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:18:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hildy http://hildygottlieb.com/2008/01/01/new-years-resolution-attending-to-the-if-only%e2%80%99s/#comment-4319 Hildy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:11:28 +0000 http://hildygottlieb.com/2008/01/01/new-years-resolution-attending-to-the-if-only%e2%80%99s/#comment-4319 Welcome, Ray! We humans sure are complex and contradictory creatures, aren't we? I find it always fascinating. Thanks for raising the question. Why do we do what we do? Hmmm... Hildy Welcome, Ray!
We humans sure are complex and contradictory creatures, aren’t we? I find it always fascinating. Thanks for raising the question. Why do we do what we do? Hmmm…
Hildy

]]> By: Ray Mutch http://hildygottlieb.com/2008/01/01/new-years-resolution-attending-to-the-if-only%e2%80%99s/#comment-4310 Ray Mutch Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:52:02 +0000 http://hildygottlieb.com/2008/01/01/new-years-resolution-attending-to-the-if-only%e2%80%99s/#comment-4310 Hello I just sent you an email. Not to worry I've sort of answered my own requests, hence here I am. Those "if only's..." they are the same as the "I can't's...", meaning of course that that outside agency has stamped its authority upon us again, stopping us dead in our tracks. "I can't..." is an absolute statement, one that we use to remove our own control from ourselves. What strange things our brains are; We, being unhappy in our condition, convince ourselves that we cannot change things, and then, having accepted this entirely fabricated logic, spend the rest of the time complaining... and, being unhappy in our condition. I wonder where that loop began? Ray Hello
I just sent you an email. Not to worry I’ve sort of answered my own requests, hence here I am.

Those “if only’s…” they are the same as the “I can’t’s…”, meaning of course that that outside agency has stamped its authority upon us again, stopping us dead in our tracks. “I can’t…” is an absolute statement, one that we use to remove our own control from ourselves.

What strange things our brains are; We, being unhappy in our condition, convince ourselves that we cannot change things, and then, having accepted this entirely fabricated logic, spend the rest of the time complaining… and, being unhappy in our condition. I wonder where that loop began?

Ray

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