I Hope To Die In The Saddle

Reality Is Not So Much What Happens To Us; Rather, It Is How We Think About Those Events That Create The Reality We Experience. In A Very Real Sense, This Means That We Each Create The Reality In Which We Live.

Religious Creeds Encourage Some Of The Craziest Kinds Of Thoughts, Emotions, And Behaviors And Favor Severe Manifestations Of Neurosis, Borderline Personality States, And Sometimes Even Psychosis.

People Are Terrified Of Other People Or Difficult Projects Because They Tell Themselves That They Could Fail Or Be Rejected. Failure Can Lead To Sorrow, Regret, Frustration And Annoyance - All Healthy, Negative Feelings Without Which People Couldn't Exist. But Then They Add, "i Absolutely Must Succeed And Must Be Loved By Significant Persons, And If I Don't, It's Terrible And I'm No Good." Those Are Irrational Beliefs. As Long As People Keep Them, They'll Be Terrified Of Life And Will Put Themselves Down When They Get Rejected.

There's No Evidence Whatsoever That Men Are More Rational Than Women Or That Men Are More Willing To Surrender Their Irrational Beliefs. Both Sexes Seem To Be Equally Irrational.

The Emotionally Mature Individual Should Completely Accept The Fact That We Live In A World Of Probability And Chance, Where There Are Not, Nor Probably Ever Will Be, Any Absolute Certainties, And Should Realize That It Is Not At All Horrible, Indeed—such A Probabilistic, Uncertain World.