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Originally Posted by Max Power  The more I consider the whole concept of PD and self help, the more I see that the whole thing is so overly complex, I used to think if something was deep and meaningful, if the book was thick, if the DVD went for 3 hours, if the seminar went for 5 days, then it has to be good, but I've found that not to be true. |
That's right - and even when the book is thick, you can probably sum it up in a few words or sentences. I not, then the book has nothing meaningful to say.
I found the moust profound insights in some very short text passages. here's an example from the sermon on the hill:
25 "I tell you this: Do not worry about your life. Do not worry about what you are going to eat and drink. Do not worry about what you are going to wear. Is not life more important than food? Is not the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds in the sky. They do not plant seeds. They do not gather grain. They do not put grain into a building to keep. Yet your Father in heaven feeds them! Are you not more important than the birds? 27 Which of you can make himself a little taller by worrying? 28 Why should you worry about clothes? Think how the flowers grow. They do not work or make cloth. 29 But I tell you that Solomon in all his greatness was not dressed as well as one of these flowers. 30 God clothes the grass of the field. It lives today and is burned in the stove tomorrow. How much more will He give you clothes? You have so little faith! 31 Do not worry. Do not keep saying, 'What will we eat?' or, 'What will we drink?' or, 'What will we wear?' 32 The people who do not know God are looking for all these things. Your Father in heaven knows you need all these things. 33 First of all, look for the holy nation of God. Be right with Him. All these other things will be given to you also. 34 Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will have its own worries. The troubles we have in a day are enough for one day.
And it could be summed up in the last verse, couldn't it?
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We want it complex because we want to believe it's not simple, simple is easy, we want something challenging and full of effort and work, we want these things mainly so if we fail, we can say "that was really hard, no wonder I failed" then we feel good about failure, but if something is easy and we fail, we feel very inadequate, we feel unworthy.
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You could be right.
I'm just not smart enough to want it overly complex or super challenging, I must be lazy, I want it easy
Yeah, lazy sounds good, as you can read in my signature. But your explanation is as youseful as the following instructions for sculpturing a horse:
- Get a block of marbe the size you want the sculpture to have
- Get rid of every peace of marble that makes the block not looking like a horse
I totally understand your point, and would agree with you that it is indeed as simple as you tell it - as well as my sculpturing instructions are 100% correct, as long as you can see the horse in front of your inner eye in every detail and have the skills and tools to form the marble block according to your "vision".
If it is indeed that simple for you, good for you. But I have to learn sculpturing before I get my horse done the way I see it in my mind.
Edit: I know I'm already there - it's just a matter of perception. But isn't it useful to know someone who perceives reality the way I want to? So he can tell me what difference there is between our perceptions, what different his beliefs are compared to mine, what feels and looks like from his point of view, and maybe he can even help me change my point of view.
The reason I'm discusing these topics here is not to over-complify things, but to put that which seems so complicated in simple words or concepts, that resonate with me.