Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...that is the current definition of insanity. Everybody knows that by now. It is gleefully repeated to others who are doing their insane thing, and, if we're wise, laughingly admitted to ourselves when we're the doer.
Why do we think, act as if, in fact, that the definition is the important thing?
Knowing the definition of insanity is, in truth, irrelevant. Before we ever knew the definition of insanity, we knew what we were doing...after doing it enough times, that is. Plus having loving friends drop a hint in our ear. That's when we truly began looking to change...other people seeing it in us and saying so.
I think it was when the definition became so popular, plus being attributed to Einstein, for heaven's sake!, that we got stuck in the definition. It seems it gives us permission to stay stuck. We forget, or never accepted, that the reason for the definition is to point us in the right direction; i.e., to stop doing our insane thing already. Or at least start thanking God for His help in stopping.
It all comes back to discipline...a word I still quake before, but I do seek it, I do apply it. Mainly because most every spiritual direction I've ever been given started with just that admonition: Practice self-discipline.
Learn to love discipline. - "God Calling," April 11.
Thank You.
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