WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?

It is for me a continuing conundrum, this reliance of mine on my reasoning mind. I have read and I have realized that the material world is but a mirror image of God's view...that, to me, explains paradox. Yet I continue to try to think my way through a perceived problem.

Ponder these for instances:

• We elect a man (so far, no woman)  president of the United States of America and consider him a failure if he doesn't do it twice. 
• A person can be in prison for murder due to addiction to drugs and alcohol, yet declare himself "free for the first time in my life." (See "Flight"...please.)
• We fight fear with a vengeance and every drug known, most of which have side effects causing anxiety, yet a simple "Welcome" to the anxiety as it is galloping forward in our minds lets it pass right on through and away.
• We put up mental walls against all of our enemies, half our friends, and most of our relatives, when a drawing closer to them removes our own resistance and allows love to grow in all parties.

From a song of the '60s: "When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?"

Thank You.