Believe six impossible things before breakfast
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- From chapter five of Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol.
Only six? Why, I've believed far more than six impossible things before breakfast. And so have we all. We've all had plenty of practice.
In reality, any belief is an attachment to something impossible. We attach to a thought, make an impossibility appear as true and real, and then act and react as if it is.
It is every bit as astonishing as anything Alice encountered.