"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." -RWE
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
If you have ever wondered: "Is this person truly giving to me what they think is most important in life?"
It can only be that every person is giving what they think is most important in life at all times-- we practice these things as only we can see them, and we adopt these models as wishes plucked from a cognitive web of memories. We can only draw from our predilections, those things in life that tug on our heart; we dare not betray that love lest we betray and lose ourselves. If it is most important that a person hide from themselves, that they not wrestle with truths, they will show you the tools they use to stay hidden: lies, distractions, truncated listening, quick/easy responses, those things they practice most. We cannot help but to always be practicing something. If we stay unknown to ourselves, sustained by a fear of exploration into those things we do not know and of those questions that we are unwilling to ask of ourselves and others and of our natural world, then we have shrunk our greatest of contributions and have made the perimeter of our identity to be ever-guarded by the fears we inherit. Here we will hide in Fear, and what should be a knowledge that we may be lost, will only feel like a disorientating headache. You cannot know what you have not explored; you may only be informed, or overwhelmed, by receiving deep and mysterious signals from your own biology when its senses the crux of a disconnect within. It seems as though the brain wants to know itself . . . with or without help from its host. And, hidden away inside ourselves, the great tragedy- to some, and great educator to others- is that we are able to hide nothing. We cannot avoid giving those things we have taken from life, as only this life can fill human stores. We can all see each other, but what we can see determines what we can take from another. Nothing is hidden in this world exuding energy except for those things opaque in our own heads. The definition of the micro paradigm is exactly what individuals do and do not allow themselves to see: what ethics stand in the way of a person acting freely, exploring freely, questioning absolutely free. What kind of inheritances are these ethical limits in any and a l l forms in which they arrive? I spare none to any practice, system, cult, philosophy, religion, business model, government, friend or family. But what we currently find ourselves giving another is indeed what we hold most dear. We are what we love. What we love is what we practice most. What we practice is all we have to give another.
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