Desires can be a big smoke screen. You think that you need someone or something, but it isn’t true. Only when you resist what is here do you desire what is not.

– Paul Ferrini,

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

– D.H. Lawrence

Premature, adj.

1. The preposterous notion that anything could occur before its proper time.

2. A comparative belief that produces nothing but suffering.

– Excerpt, “Dictionary of Mental Bondage,” Adell Shay

amnesia n.

A loss of memory, especially one brought on by some distressing or shocking experience.

Don’t be so smart that you can’t define ‘intellectual’
Re-examining her definition of what an intellectual is takes the sting out of being labeled one.
By Adell Shay

Didn’t he see it? How could he shower and get dressed regularly without tending to the blemishes that infiltrated his back and legs? What did he do before he met me? Seeing it there on him beckoned me; the outside world ceased to exist and his untended blemish became the focal point of my existence. I leaped forward to slay my enemy. Jay caught the look in my eye and his body tightened.

It has been a long time since I’ve eaten a meal this bad. I inhale it
greedily and wonder how long it took me to forget the normalcy of such
meals. This one has been a twelve-hour car drive from home, about as far as
one can drive without hitting Oregon. The others are thousands of miles
away and decades behind me now. Getting older and fleeing the Midwest has
its advantages.

Despite knowing that everything is large in Texas, that particular phrase
always captured my imagination. I think my psyche is drawn to the optimism I
feel every time I hear or speak it.