I was intrigued the first time I saw this vid. I was like 'Wow, now I have the power to control everything in me. But according to this clip why has it been hidden for so long ?(must be those bigoted, ultra-conservatives religious fundamentalists I assume)'
Babylon aristocrats breathed it. Albert Einstein knew about it, Beethoven had it, Lincoln lived it. And Oprah bartendering it on her book club in 2006 (wow that must be sooo incredible, soooo incredible). Since I am faithless n somewhat bend towards e nihilists category. So that must be the 'it' for me. The Secret Revealed.
Following the law of attraction of light attracts light, I try to have happy thoughts everyday, avoiding negative aspects in life, smiling from cheek to cheek, until one day it became so plastic I almost believe I got bipolar disorder.
That is, until I come upon this new yorker article
The high regard of this new age movement starts tumbling down before me, and reality sets in, good n bad ones, not e good n good.
Firstly, contrary to what most readers believe, it is not e author who started this train of thought, before Rhonda, there is Oscar Wilde in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' whose protagonist proclaims such notion 'If one does not talk about a thing, it has never happened.'
Then there is Ralph Waldo Emerson poem 'Nature' -
Build, therefore, your own world
As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
Considering that it appears in 1836, there is nothing new about it.
Second, there is a ringing sense of self-fulfilling prophecy here, which pretty much sums up by my Montfort Secondary School motto Ageis quode ageis 'If you believe it you can see it'. I was too innocent then to thoroughly comprehend tat a catholic school had proclaimed to us a new-age principle, for the past 10 years in my life there. Good thing that the motto changes.
Anyway, there is a flip side to this self-fulfilling idea, and that is, pushed to the extreme end of the continuum, self-delusional beliefs and thoughts. Lacquering a situation with a veneer of overoptimism, irregardless of good or bad, could in fact worsen the situation, especially when brainstorming worst case scenarios are neglected or impregnated with false hopes and desires. It is akin to a mad man not understanding about his surroundings, and happily going on with his life in an imaginary world. Happy? happy. But fake.
Just my two cents worth of thought, and I continue still, a Bazarov nihilist.
Babylon aristocrats breathed it. Albert Einstein knew about it, Beethoven had it, Lincoln lived it. And Oprah bartendering it on her book club in 2006 (wow that must be sooo incredible, soooo incredible). Since I am faithless n somewhat bend towards e nihilists category. So that must be the 'it' for me. The Secret Revealed.
Following the law of attraction of light attracts light, I try to have happy thoughts everyday, avoiding negative aspects in life, smiling from cheek to cheek, until one day it became so plastic I almost believe I got bipolar disorder.
That is, until I come upon this new yorker article
The high regard of this new age movement starts tumbling down before me, and reality sets in, good n bad ones, not e good n good.
Firstly, contrary to what most readers believe, it is not e author who started this train of thought, before Rhonda, there is Oscar Wilde in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' whose protagonist proclaims such notion 'If one does not talk about a thing, it has never happened.'
Then there is Ralph Waldo Emerson poem 'Nature' -
Build, therefore, your own world
As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
Considering that it appears in 1836, there is nothing new about it.
Second, there is a ringing sense of self-fulfilling prophecy here, which pretty much sums up by my Montfort Secondary School motto Ageis quode ageis 'If you believe it you can see it'. I was too innocent then to thoroughly comprehend tat a catholic school had proclaimed to us a new-age principle, for the past 10 years in my life there. Good thing that the motto changes.
Anyway, there is a flip side to this self-fulfilling idea, and that is, pushed to the extreme end of the continuum, self-delusional beliefs and thoughts. Lacquering a situation with a veneer of overoptimism, irregardless of good or bad, could in fact worsen the situation, especially when brainstorming worst case scenarios are neglected or impregnated with false hopes and desires. It is akin to a mad man not understanding about his surroundings, and happily going on with his life in an imaginary world. Happy? happy. But fake.
Just my two cents worth of thought, and I continue still, a Bazarov nihilist.
