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Trick or Treat
This simple question, chanted by a ghoulishly dressed group of neighborhood kids on my doorstep this week reminded me of a little quotation about Halloween that I came across recently, yet which was written over 2000 years ago:
“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light, sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.” - Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.]
It got me thinking about how the ways in which we use our own minds can either “trick” us or “treat” us.
As with children, things which seem terrifying or uncertain in the darkness simply evaporate in the bright light of day, and yet how often do we lose the ability to let the daylight in to certain aspects or areas of our lives? How often do we continue to stumble around in the virtual darkness, and continue to “tremble and fear” those things which exist purely in our imagination?
So what can we learn from this?
Well to continue with the analogy, the next time you find a ghoulish thought knocking on the door of your conscious mind, open the door wide and let in the sunlight – demand the treat and not the trick!
Kind Regards,
Guy Insull,
Founder,
Champions Club
