Day One Hundred Seventy Five

It seems that most all of our endeavors are aimed at making ourselves feel alright, or at least think we are right. Even Philosophy and Science, with their noble and objective descriptions, tend toward fulfilling a desire to be correct. Extreme skepticism, with its negativity toward what can be known, fulfills our need to be in control of what is not known. The mind's capacity to wrap around comparison and categorization betrays the subtle underlying attachments and aversions its words deny. The mind fights to the bitter end to define itself through its definitions of everything else. Rarely is it brought into the light, to be with its mother attention.