Clarity is not the absence of confusion. Clarity is the understanding of confusion.
As long as you can control the institutions, you can control the [thinking and] behavior of people. - Dr. Bobby E. Wright
Monday, May 25, 2015
Sure Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Effects Of Mental Illness, Part 8
Unity Consciousness #260
Unity Consciousness #260
.A sure sign, symptom, cause and effect of mental illness is focusing most attention on the shortest component of time.
The present is the shortest component of time. We already know this. We know the past is much longer than the present. We also know the future is much longer than the present.
We also know the past is more certain and more reliable than both the present and the future. Compared to the present, the past, as a source of information, is longer, more certain and more reliable. We have been given this resource and the ability to examine it, reexamine it and understand it. The past is a way of knowing. The memory in our cells and in our brains is hard drive storage space. It is there for us to use so we can access the past as a tool to assist in the workings of today's thought processes.
If we only use the present as a resource, we have very little to work with. We must use all three components of time simultaneously - the past, the present and the future.
Usiku