So true!! But does repeating the mantra instill belief eventually? Kind of like you don't really want to paint and you start working and eventually as you work something brilliant happens? Or having someone repeatedly tell you something and eventually you actually believe it?
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"having someone repeatedly tell you something and eventually you actually believe it" sounds like brainwashing -such an apt description and conjures up a myriad images
Belief is normally caused by evidence & rational analysis -when it is without such evidence or in the face of evidence to the contrary, then it is called faith
Now do we start dissecting faith in yourself, belief in yourself or fooling yourself?
Shakespeare in one of his plays said (if you BELIEVE they are his works) "to thine own self be true"
Now THAT is a mantra I could subscribe to.
'There are more things in Heaven and earth,Missy,than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' with apology to W.Shakespeare ( or whoever )
Hamlet,Act i Sc 5
'There are more things in Heaven and earth,Missy,than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' with apology to W.Shakespeare ( or whoever )
Hamlet,Act i Sc 5
"He (she GJ)waxes desperate with imagination" Hamlet Act1 Sc4
"To fly as fast as thought Missy,to anywhere that is," he said,"you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived..."
J.L.Seagull, Richard Bach
For GJ "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time-Abe Lincoln
Missy...No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel,and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
H.S. Thompson.
GJ this is becoming tiresome and boring Time to move on
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