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THINK ON THESE

“whatsoever things are true…think on these” Phil. 4:8

After reading the above quote from the book of Philippians in the early 1960’s, I was so impressed with it that I set the entire quote to music as “Think On These” (Ó 1964). Later, it was published in A Collection of the Songs of Susanne (Ó 1970). In 1983 the song took on a new life in Stop Raising All That Hell, the prelude to my musical on The Revelation of John the Divine.

Here, the concept of using the mind to create positivity is also related to preserving our ability to think for ourselves by being more aware

The topics chosen are generally familiar sayings or aphorisms that were used by my mother as teaching tools. She needed only mention them once and you knew what she meant and reacted with due prudence. I once mentioned this practice of my mother to someone who retorted “she didn’t write those.” The assumption that I didn’t know that immediately told me that this person who routinely dismissed anyone else’s experiences as insignificant, obviously assumed a false sense of superior knowledge. My mother’s teaching aphorism to that person would have probably been, “Don’t be wise in your own conceit.”

To the aphorisms and saying used by my mother, I have also added some of my own to address the changing vernacular.

Elyse Curtis, Ph. D.

Think on These

Ø Is it Ego or Ego-Trip?

Ø The Emperor Has No Clothes

Ø Should We Let Others Define Us?

Ø Self Praise is No Recommendation

Ø Familiarity Breeds Contempt

“The Emperor Has No Clothes”

While we might feel protected by our own particular concepts of ourselves, do others recognize our state of emotional maturity by our actions?

Think on These:

Ø Is the first step to maturity taking responsibility for one’s action or rationalizing one’s actions and seeking someone else to blame?

Since growth and emotional development occur when the source of the problem is confronted and overcome, rationalizing and shifting of blame would do the opposite.

Ø Think on This - Self might be deluded,

but the answer is obvious.

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“Is it Ego or Ego-Trip?”

Think on These:

If “I am,” describes self, the passive ego that just is, does “Here I am!” calling attention to self, describe the active ego that can manifest as the ego trip, or egocentrism?

Ø When someone is speaking and we are not listening objectively, but are busily thinking up ways to relate what is being said in some flattering way to self whether it is relevant to the story or not, is that “Ego” or an “Ego-Trip?”

Ø Think on This - It is probably painfully

obvious to others witnessing.

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“Should We Let Others Define Us?

“He who controls the language,

controls the minds of the people.”

Think on These:

Should definitions given by one group to maximize themselves and minimize others be accepted and repeated until they become the norm?

Ø Should we consider phrases like, “third world” and “minority group,” attempts to define groups of people as inferior and separate them from the rest of humanity?

Earth is the third planet, but there is only one world. If the intent is to define those nations that do not have nuclear capability, then that should be said, or is it an insidious attempt to plant a subconscious thought that some inhabitants of the planet are expendable and do not really belonging here.

Ø Since the collective majority of the people on the planet are not the ones who instituted the phrase, “minority group,” to define them, is lumping the majority of the people of the planet into one group called minority a twist on the language intended to implant in them a feeling of inferiority while implanting the reverse to the group that is smaller in numbers?

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Ø Should indigenous people of one country be identified by the name of another country because the “explorer” got lost?

When identifying people, such as the indigenous people of the now Americas as “Indians” the nationality of people of India, a country half-way around the world, does that implant the seed that those people are foreigners in their own land, therefore, it is alright to take it away from them?

Ø When using those words to define self, are members of the groups maligned relegating their wills to others and being complicit in their own demeaning?

Ø - Think on These

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“Self Praise is No Recommendation”

When many of us embark on the spiritual path, because we are so eager to affirm our immortality and the powers that Jesus promised we could all have because he goes to his father, we can become extremely gullible and lose hold on the true God-given gift, our free will, by relegating it to others.

Think on These:

Ø If someone says “I’m psychic,” are they about to charge you money to give you a platitude or tell you something you already know? Should you ask to see the result of their double blind test from some reputable scientific study or their authenticated, proven body of work, or should you call the Amazing Randy post haste to debunk them?

Ø If someone says, “I’m gifted,” does that mean they have no legitimate academic degrees in what they’re trying to convince you of?

Ø Since it is common knowledge that the word “psychic” pertains to the human mind and psyche (soul, life), aren’t all humans possessed of souls therefore “psychic”?

Ø Because someone prefaces his/her name with the title of “master,” does that mean that they have reached Christhood or even academic excellence or are more “advanced” than you, or is it a self-appointed title or one gained from another self-appointed “master” at a weekend seminar?

Ø - Think on These

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“Familiarity Breeds Contempt”

“Respect Engenders Friendship”

In the Caribbean culture from which I came, it was unheard of for children to address adults by their first names. Indeed everyone was accorded due respect that would be disintegrated with too much familiarity.

It appears that the breakdown in respect increasingly heralds the breakdown of civility.

Think on These:

Ø Would a burglar mug someone he/she calls Mrs?

Ø Do women deserve the same respect as men? When women with advance degrees are not addressed by their titles as men are (especially by other women) is it because of ignorance, contempt, or jealousy? Does this engender contempt?

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