The Habit I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do you might as well turn over to me and I will do them
- quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed - you must be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons,
I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of great people, and alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine though
I work with the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin
- it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am Habit. Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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Awesome stuff, Cyb. Reminds me of the riddles in the Hobbit. Are you the creator of this poem?
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untimelyethos wrote:Awesome stuff, Cyb. Reminds me of the riddles in the Hobbit. Are you the creator of this poem?
No the gf turned me on to it... Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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Very cool, cyb! Hey, have you always had that neat little brain dude on your avatar? Be an adult only when necessary.
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Awesome. Very enlightening as to all the attributes of habit. "Energy flows where attention goes" [Please review the forum Wiki and FAQ before posting questions]
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Thanks man, been trying to switch my last few time wasting habits to productive ones recently. This is GREAT! In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits. However, in the province of the body there are definite limits not to be transcended.-J.C. Lilly
The Spice must flow
Zat was Zen and dis is Dao.
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cyb wrote:
Who am I?
I am Habit
I was guessing 'ego' the whole time. Guess I should've read the title  "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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beautiful words , i am having a mindgasm reading it illusions !, there are no illusions
there is only that which is the truth
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Habitual bumpage
Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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cyb wrote:The Habit I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do you might as well turn over to me and I will do them
- quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed - you must be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons,
I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of great people, and alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine though
I work with the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin
- it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am Habit. I love it! May I repost this quote and credit you! These are ppwerful words of insight! If your religion, faith, devotion, or self proclaimed spirituality is not directly leading to an increase in kindness, empathy, compassion and tolerance for others then you have been misled.
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joedirt wrote:I love it! May I repost this quote and credit you!
These are powerful words of insight!
Please do repost Joe...but these words are not mine...I forget where I found them. Powerful indeed.  Please do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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Gratitude for you sharing this 
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Great quote Cyb. It's amazing how unaware we can be of how we function (or dysfunction).
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 Yeah cyb Very nice cyb. More, more BUT I, TOO, WANT TO BE A POET But I, too, want to be a poet and live a virtuous life To erase from my days confusion & poverty fiction & a sharp tongue! To sing again with the tones of adolescence demanding vengeance against my enemies, with words clear & austere To end this tumultuous quest for reasonable solutions to situations mysterious & sore To have the height to view myself as I view others with lenience and love To be free of the need to make a waste of money when my passion, first and last, is for the ecstatic lash of the poetic line and no visible recompense. Fanny Howe …those who believe in science are as prone to addiction to imposed dogma and faith as are religious zealots. So one has to be very careful to really step back and want to know the truth.
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cyb...that really spoke to me! awe-some.
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