A Look at the Common Payoffs of Musterbation Some of the reasons you have for hanging onto your shoulds are detailed below. These payoffs, like those in all erroneous zones, are mostly self-destructive but nevertheless constitute a certain support system of their own. • You can take...
Resisting Enculturation and Traditions When They Affect You Negatively Progress, yours personally and the world’s, depends on unreasonable men, rather than people who adapt to their society and accept whatever comes along. Progress depends on individuals who are innovators, who reject convention and fashion their own...
There is a neat little word, coined by Albert Ellis, for the tendency to incorporate shoulds into your life. It is “musterbation”.You are “musterbating” whenever you find yourself behaving in ways that you feel you must, even though you might prefer some other form of...
God sent for his dearest angel and showed him the pattern of a mother. The angel didn’t like what he saw: “You have been working too many extra hours, You no longer know what You are doing,” the angel said. “Look at that! Special kisses to cure...
‘When an apple ripens and falls – what makes it fall? Is it that it is attracted to the ground, is it that the stem withers, is it that the sun has dried it up, that is has grown heavier, that the wind shakes it,...
The generation gap is a very new thing in the world. Just half a century ago, nobody had ever even heard the term `generation gap'. And man has been here for thousands of years. But no society, no culture, no civilization was bothered with the...
A vizier had served his master for some thirty years and was known and admired for his loyalty, truthfulness, and devotion to God. His honesty, however, had made him many enemies in the court, who spread stories of his' duplicity and pertidy. They worked on...
The Delphic maxims are a set of maxims inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Originally, they were said to have been given by the Greek god Apollo's Oracle at Delphi, Pythia, and therefore were attributed to Apollo. The 3rd century doxographer Diogenes Laertius...
A man and his son were once going with their donkey to market. As they were walking along by his side a countryman passed them and said, “You fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon?” So the man put the boy on the donkey,...
An Eagle, swooping down on powerful wings, seized a lamb in her talons and made off with it to her nest. A Jackdaw saw the deed, and his silly head was filled with the idea that he was big and strong enough to do as...
