260415 What I learned in my studies this morning 6*

Today's Meditation(s):

Meditations, 8.29 (Hicks and Hicks)

It's never as easy as Marcus et al. make it sound.

Just decide. Just change. Just reject.

Just nothing. It's hard.

Recognition comes first. Tough to see passion from the inside. Tough to discover the mind fog when it has you blanketed under darkness. Tough to strip away illusion, assumptions, mistakes, urges and find reality.

Then comes analysis. What, exactly, is the issue? What is my impulse or passion demanding? Why does it seem like the only, the best, reaction? What will it take to turn it into action.

Now, to do it. To convince myself, despite seeming evidence, that this is not the right way to act. That I must pause, reconsider, develop, and execute a better plan.

Not one of these steps is easy in the moment. But they are 8mportant.