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Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady

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Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion. Emotional sobriety is living sanely.
Selfish, self-centered, self-serving ideas are thoughts. Thinking about thinking creates more thoughts. Thinking about thinking itself does not create our self as anything other than what is imagined, in thought. Thoughts serving thoughts create fear once we think we become their reality they seem to become our master. We know better so acting otherwise we feel afraid. Thinking we’ve been reduced to only what we think is Insane. Insanity never thinks it’s insane. Guilt and shame are byproducts of this imagined master as we bear like slaves “its” unbending rule - as though our chance and choice to dream is reality. To think Life becomes impossible because we choose to believe in impossible ideas reinforce the idea we have nothing to do with obsessive thoughts. We can think whatever we want. Trying to feel better or get over any disturbance treats the effect by thinking that avoiding the cause is possible. Ignoring disease is not a cure but a guarantee it will get worse.
When thinking is imagined to be reality the defensiveness to be right is an automatic fight for what is wrong. It is the present thought - that triggers obsessive thinking NOW. There is nothing to stop when of obsessive thinking is seen clearly. Feeling confused disappears as it becomes obvious we have absolutely no obligation whatsoever to continue. We know what we are doing or would not feel bad or wrong. We would not be ashamed if all we could do was the same thing over and over again while watching things get worse.

Ovid’s story of Narcissus is over two thousand years old. Briefly: Narcissus fell in love with his image as his reality. This meant he could not love or care for anyone else or attend to his basic needs. So he starved to death along with others like Echo who died by their own hand for their unrequited love for him. In both cases, love’s ideal was perverted. This story is told by anyone and everyone who thinks they are or their "reality" is only a thought’s image of itself. Obsessive thoughts are narcissistic. Our image is an image just as our thoughts are thoughts. Neither determine reality nor are products of real possibilities.

Self-centered thinking has been occurring as long as righteous indignation has ignited hatred to justify suppressing, oppressing, or killing people for how they think or appear. For as long as thoughts are considered reality appearances and what others think are blindingly magnified to be seen as the greatest threat.

If you think you have no influence over anyone consider the influence you have on everyone. If this sounds crazy how less crazy is it to think we have no influence whatsoever? Karma as the consequences of actions is immediate and represents the sum of all that is happening as the cumulative effect of everything that has ever happened. This totality represents society, the animal kingdom, and the universe - while culture is based on what we think.

Sanity or insanity, To Be or not to be still persists as a question: are we real or imagined, substantive or only projected forms appearing real? Are we only human devoid of any greater substance or is humanity a possibility of reality? Dreams feel real. What is possible only seems impossible until we notice how condemned we think we are to repeat thoughts over and over again as a repetition of our awareness they are over as soon as they are chosen, to start with.

Carry on.

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