To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/01/09 04:22
Subject: Re: [K-list] How To Believe What I Don't
From: David Bozzi
On 2004/01/09 04:22, David Bozzi posted thus to the K-list:
DruoutATaol.com wrote:
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>David writes:
>
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>>Hillary suggested contemplation of gratefulness
>>which is all well and good
>>but
>>if I am lost in a world of darkness (illusion)
>>what pray-tell
>>could I ever perceive as something as being grateful for...?
>>
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>Dear David,
>
>Well, here you seem to presume that gratitude needs an object! :)) And I
>agree that generally that seems to be the case. But in my gratitude there is no
>object. I'm not grateful for anything in particular, although there are many
>things to be grateful for (and not to be grateful for.) It is simply a
>sensation that I seem able to call up with the simple conceptual thought of
>"gratitude."
>
Of course.
I knew what you meant. ;)
I was being whimsical.
>I was going to say that in a sense I *become* gratitude, but I find that
>isn't exactly the case--for when I do that, I seem to end up in a no-sensation
>place--neither pleasant nor unpleasant.
>
Understood.
>
>It's true that in either case it does seem to take an effort of will--but
>then as you suggest, doing nothing is not always easy either. But one thing is
>sure--that is that change is inevitable --so simply waiting it out may be the
>simplest option, knowing things must get better since they can't get much
>worse.
>
>Otherwise, I hope you are upping your intake of the B complex vitamins and
>getting some exercise! :)) We are living in an age when we can alter our
>brain chemistry .
>
Everything alters brain chemistry.
Television, power lines, sex, food ...
>
>If I have any "object" for gratitude it is in thanks for my DNA.
>
Me too.
I age really, really slow.
> My older
>sister suffers from depression, and I seem to have been spared. I do know that
>the two most painful periods of my life consisted in the physical pain of
>kidney stones, and when I went through a very short period of panic attacks. In
>both cases I would not have rejected medication! :)
>
>There may be something of interest/use at the following URL.
>
>http://www.medications.com/go/drug/Amygdala
>
:)
You know it's funny.
When I spoke of speaking from the 'darkness'
I was speaking metaphorically. (poetically)
People reacted to my words
in their own way
and I just followed the flow....
My wife calls me a catalyst.
Now if I only I can figure out just exactly
what I am catalyzing...
:)
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