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Originally Posted by wingin'it
Racing thoughts are like an endless tape of random ideas zipping by just beyond your rational mind's reach. A verbal kaleidoscope.
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For me racing thoughts were the same automatic thoughts that went through my mind, but went through it at a speed I couldn't evaluate or alter them. When they were positive, that didn't seem like a problem, to me anyway, but when they were negative, it was life-threatening.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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