A poem and some aphorisms...

    "a postmodern state of mind..."

   Angst on a Treadmill

With mind distraught,
I vaguely see
an ambiuous thought
that troubles me.
The takers take!
The getters get!
For whose sake,
I know not yet.
Try to change,
some badger and prod.
I feel strange;
yet, on I plod.
Where's the start?
Where's the end?
Just do your part,
encourage the trend.
Endure I must,
With all my might;
don't let their lusts
subdue my fight.
Now with mind distraught
I still vaguely see,
an ambiguous thought
that troubles me...
JEMokie
1967

BIBLE QUIZ:   Where are these Bible verses found?
                       The translation used here was the New American Standard.
1. O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me.
2.Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou dost understand my thought from afar.                         HINT: It is thought that David wrote many of these verses.

Try looking deeper for help with your daily angst (anxiety).

      Money may buy the husk of things, but not the kernel.
It brings you food but not appetite, medicine but not health, acquaintances but not friends, servants but not faithfulness, days of joy but not peace or happiness.   Henrik Ibsen

from: 
   Joan Winmill Brown,  Wings of Joy .  (Old Tappan: Revell Co., 1977),  63.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others, for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thy own that require a reciprocation of forebearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest to be, how canst thou expect to mould another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas A Kempis

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.    Galileo Galilei
From:
      Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn,  How To Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age   (Mountain View: Mayfield,  1995),  114.

  Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.  If encouraged, it cuts     a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.     Arthur Somers Roche

from: James S. Hewett,  Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1988), 496.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating  his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four hours of the day. W. Beran Wolfe

from: James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1988), 280.