Kevin Hinckley- Why We Pray, Learning to Speak with "A New Tongue"

Beliefs                                   ----> Emotions             ----> Actions
                                                 Truth                                Lies
    =                                         Rational                            Irrational

Conscious                        Basic Truths                             Phobias
Thoughts                          Logic                                       Superstitions
                                                                                       Bad Habits
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Unconscious                    Internal Belief Pattern                  Vault

Thoughts                          Habits

                                         
                                                                                

Question-

Constrained?  Sometimes the answer is that we're just being constrained and having a hard time doing something.


The Fairness Doctrine-
Good things happen to good people, Bad things happen to bad people

Brace yourself...

Elder Marion D. Hanks “Forgiveness: The Ultimate Form of Love,” Ensign, Jan 1974
“… the withholding of love is the negation of the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew him, that for us he lived in vain. It means that he suggested nothing in all our thoughts, that he inspired nothing in all our lives, that we were not once near enough to him to be seized with the spell of his compassion for the world.”

Hugh Nibly- if you could sum up everything that you've learned, what would it be.  "Repent & Forgive"

Joseph Smith -Ever keep in exercise the principle of mercy, and be ready to forgive our brother on the first intimations of repentance, and asking forgiveness; and should we even forgive our brother, or even our enemy, before he repent or ask forgiveness, our heavenly Father would be equally as merciful unto us.

One of the demands of justice is mercy.

Can you, by sheer will power cause your brain to let go of deeply held grudges?  No.  That's what the Atonement is for.

Another Prayer Blocker
 Elder Bednar (Receiving, Recognizing, and Responding to the Promptings of the Holy Ghost, Ricks College Devotional Aug 1999)-  The law of the harvest is real; we cannot gather crops in the fall which we did not properly plant and cultivate during the spring and summer. And we cannot realistically expect to recognize "big" promptings if we consistently fail to heed the "small" ones...Misguided attempts to get spiritually supercharged through unusually long prayers, lengthy and unwise fasting, and intensive, short-term temple attendance certainly are no substitute for gradual, consistent, and conscientious attention to the promptings of the Holy Ghost.

Elder Boyd K. Packer
"Shortly after I was called as a General Authority, I went to Elder Harold B. Lee for counsel. He listened very carefully to my problem and suggested that I see President David O. McKay. President McKay counseled me as to the direction I should go. I was very willing to be obedient but saw no way possible for me to do as he counseled me to do.

"I returned to Elder Lee and told him that I saw no way to move in the direction I was counseled to go. He said, 'The trouble with you is you want to see the end from the beginning.' I replied that I would like to see at least a step or two ahead. Then came the lesson of a lifetime: 'You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you'" ("The Edge of the Light," BYU Today, Mar. 1991, 22-23