You need to trust who you are.
I once knew a man named Creed. Just Creed. Creed was a dreadlocked,
African American, handmade-conga-playing veteran of the Vietnam War. I
never saw him when he wasn't wearing spandex pants, and fringe-lined,
calf-length buckskin moccasins. Usually, he wore a pony express cowboy
hat with crossed rifles pinned to the upturned brim, and a buckskin
jacket with foot-long fringe on the back and sleeves. Creed once told
me something I've never forgotten, something I've gone back to more
times than I can count in the fifteen years since the conversation:
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As a navigational term, attitude refers to the orientation of a craft,
an airplane for example, to a particular point of reference, like, say
the runway. A bad attitude can mean a crash landing. In it's origins,
attitude is connected to the word aptitude, which means "general
suitability."
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"Good King Wenceslas" is a Christmas carol written by John Mason
Neale. It's based on the life of Wenceslaus the First, Duke of
Bohemia, who lived in the tenth century.
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Cluttered memory and intellect result in problematic patterns of
thought and behavior. With debris piled up in these faculties, we
start out on the wrong foot and things get worse from there. If you
can't perceive a situation clearly, you can't manage it effectively.
When the very mechanisms by which you perceive and respond to reality
are cluttered with distortion, you can't possibly achieve your dreams.
It will be very difficult even to know what your dream is.
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The degree to which hope is present in the perspective is determined
by the experience of the past. In the three-part model of memory,
intellect and will, memory is the place where all experience is
contained and "remembered." Remembering can be actual remembrance, but
more often it takes the shape of unnoticed thought patterns or
behavior. It's the impression or echo of past experience repeated in
our current interactions with reality.
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The three parts of the perspective -- memory, intellect and will --
each have a corresponding discipline by which they can be cleared of
distortion. This is an idea from medieval patristic theology. Memory
is cleared by hope. Intellect is cleared by faith. Will is cleared by
love.
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Enhancing the sense of self is an act of housecleaning. With the
clutter removed, what remains is who you really are. Much of the
mental anguish we experience, the tension and anxiety, the lack of
well being -- the difficulties we face while finding our place in life
-- have their origins in this clutter.
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