Dear Wisdom:

Excellent thread!

I will not lie to you and never did: I wrote to you and am writing to you the truth as I know it, as I learned it and as I am learning it. You did not get trickery from me, “convenient thinking,” that is: what feels good to think although it is not true. And no push from me to think positive, only realistically. I encourage to think what is real not what is positive.

1) “1 – what makes anyone so “worthy” of love? usually that’s what everyone says. is that even true or are you just buttering everyone up?” We are born worthy, that’s all I can come up with. Truly, we are. Some of us are loved as babies and young children so we know we are worthy simply because we were born that way, and many of us were not loved as babies and children so we don’t know we are worthy of love. In any case we are worthy of love. Many of us simply don’t know it.

2)”– what’s the difference between true intuition and just a good feeling about the thought of something that you really want?”
Just feeling good is like you are eating a cookie: it tastes good and feels good inside and when you are done eating it, you want to feel good again and have another cookie, and if you do another and another, you end up feeling badly. True intuition is like you are eating a cookie and as you eat it, you notice it tastes good. You notice you are getting excited and are already planning on having another cookie, before you even finished the first one, and you are already feeling distress about having to many. And you remember, as you are still eating the first cookie, you remember how uncomfortable you feel when you eat too many cookies. And you remember that in the past you pushed these thoughts away by eating another cookie. So taking all this into consideration, you finish the first cookie and you close the package with the rest of the cookies and put it away.

..And you can’t believe you did just that. The taste of the cookie is still in your mouth but you also feel pride in yourself that you put the rest away. You know intuitively that you do need to feel good by eating a cookie once in a while AND you know that you also need to feel pride in yourself for practicing reasonable control over your behavior.

I wrote more than I planned so I will stop here, wait for your response. Please take your time and really read what i wrote before you reply. Once you reply and I see that you did your best to consider my answers, after any more discussion about the first two questions, I will attempt answering the others. No rush!

anita