I have heard over and over so many years to govern what you think, or be in control of your thoughts. What you think about comes about, or What you focus on grows. I have been to seminar after seminar and everyone always talks about the importance of your thoughts, staying positive… Blah, Blah, Blah. I just did not get it or understand how our thoughts could shape our future until I received an unexpected gift.

This article develops how coming upon faith-consciousness plays such an important role toward happy, healthy and successful living. It sets out practical steps to overall spiritual well-being for realizing Christ within. And, how coming upon faith-consciousness can be used in helping overcome addiction related situations.

In this article I argue that the human being anthropologically consists mainly in a material body, a rational mind that is material and ultimately immaterial, an emotional soul and a spirit that works intuitively. From these come materialistic atheism, rational deism, mysticism and pantheism and polytheism. These should be balanced, but usually are blown out of proportion.

Similarity, however, could be a somewhat obscure property. Love depends upon many alternative factors, and it’d doubtless be oversimplification to clarify it by referring just to similarity. Still, some live of similarity is sometimes useful in maintaining love relations.

The most significant thing we can do to control our desires is to let go of the attachment we have to them. The Buddha believed desire is the reason for pain and suffering in the world. This is embodied in the endless cycle of wanting and craving that keeps us trapped.