Eye.nonymous wrote on 30 May 2011 05:21:
I spent YEARS and YEARS analyzing myself, thinking I was so enlightened, thinking I had such great insights, thinking I'd learn how to beat my addiction some day.
But, I have learned that the addiction FEEDS on ISOLATION, and part of the solution is GETTING OUT OF MY HEAD!!! All that self-self-self me-me-me, WAS REALLY KILLING ME! The more INTO ME I was, the sicker I really was.
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I'm just restating this, resurrecting it, because I fear it was killed previously with a bit of leitzanus.
Here I think it is different for everyone. Some people think not enough, whilst others think too much. Without any thought, there is no direction, or
Chas v'shalom the wrong direction. I'm now thinking of the people who blindly follow something that they read in a
sefer, without understanding whether it is relevant to them or not. But with too much thought comes fear and inaction.
IMHO, a balance needs to be found for each person.
The
Yetzer Horo is an amazing opponent, and has read
Sun Tzu and all the other great books on war. He knows that one can use an opponents strengths against him. Where the mind is a person's strength (and pride), he will use that. At the end of any meeting (in business, medicine, therapy) there should be actions. Without those, and a follow-through, it is all
Hevel hevalim.
Additionally, and separately, there is only one time, and that is
now. The hard part is knowing the right thing to do "now". There are so many right things, and only one now... It gets confusing. Hillel didn't answer that one in an obvious way.