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Is it better to make a fool of yourself and come out smelling of wisdom or is it better to sit on the fence and deny your own emotions? We can observe life and gain in wisdom but sometimes there's nothing quite like falling on our own swords to get the complete picture!
Too many people are so conditioned in their thinking that they are not living life to the full; they are doing what is 'safe' and what is 'familiar'; never moving outside of their self-imposed boundaries. They have boxed themselves in, and yet it is the adventures that await them 'outside of their boxes', which will bring their wisdom.
You should only resist temptation when you already have the wisdom. If you never 'put your toe in the water', you're never going 'to know'. That is not to say that you should do something stupid, like taking recreational drugs, just to know the effects, when the effects on a person's state of mind are plain to see.
What I am really saying is, our own limitations of mind, prevent us from venturing out and discovering new aspects of ourselves that are buried deep within us.
I had a friend say to me recently that she thinks I am very clever! Of course that is just her perception, but it tells me that she is also very clever because she can only recognise in me what exists in her (because if it didn't exist in her she wouldn't be able to recognise it in me).
The question for her is, "are you ever going to discover your own genius or are you going to continue with your conditioned life?"
Isn't it a fact that we compromise and thus limit ourselves because of our learned perceptions of life and the experiences we have had from this warped point of view (the resulting misconceptions being laid down as long-term memory)? It is no wonder our subconscious minds need reprogramming!
I recently had a conversation with a friend and it was all about CHOICE. She was trying to say that some people don't have a choice and I was disagreeing with her. She made some valid points but isn't it the case that we always have a choice? It's just whether we are prepared to pay the price of what a difficult choice will mean. Sure it can sometimes seem that there is no choice, because of the controlled environment in which we live, but the truth is - the only things that really box us in are our own emotions. And all they are, is 'survivalist' body-talk.
When you hone your skills at watching your mind and you listen to your emotions talking to you; eventually you will realise that it is your body that is talking to you and arguing for its limitations! You are then on the brink of enlightenment.
The intellectual mind always has a few tricks up its sleeve, so to speak. Its width and capacity is enormous and it takes a very skilled observer to back it into a corner, where its only responses are "are you sure about that?" (Yes) "Then prove it".
Your intellectual mind is clever, it is cunning, it has a record of everything you have ever said, and it will use it against you're intention to evolve beyond it. But it also has two other qualities that make it stand out like a sore thumb, namely:
1. It is riddled with ulterior motive.
2. It is motivated only to satisfy your emotions and keep you in your box.
What then of a mind that can take you deeper into the hidden depths of yourself? A mind that has no ulterior motive and speaks from wisdom realised rather than from emotions. It is a mind that loves you unconditionally.
How do we distinguish such a mind? It has the one and only quality that it needs to be loving - it is absolutely truthful - always. Ulterior motives and the voices of emotions are obliterated when faced with a truthful mind. And when we consider that through our own involution, love was birthed from truth and so cannot exist without it.
So if we want to love unconditionally, we have to become absolutely honest with ourselves and everyone else. The antithesis of this, is we know that somebody that is not absolutely honest with us, cannot love us because they are not yet at a place to where they can love anyone unconditionally.
There are many stages in our own evolution and I can tell you that 'love expressed' is more advanced than 'love felt'. Expressing love is all about the unconditional giving of information (knowledge) that can help the soul of another; whereas what we generally find in our society is the 'withholding' of knowledge, which is all about control and personal gain.
All of the battles we have today have their foundations in control (the withholding of knowledge), from individuals in relationships to governments and religions that play on a much bigger stage. Being untruthful is endemic in our society and the reason we live in an immoral world; whereas becoming truthful automatically engenders a natural moralistic state.
It is not about one's perceptions of right and wrong, good and bad or positive and negative, for these are merely judgements coming from an individual's polarised mind. For example, in the context of relationships, you may be interested in 'going out' with somebody but how would they react if you told them the truth?
1. You just wanted to have sex with them.
2. You just wanted a free night out.
3. You just wanted to kill some time.
4. You just wanted to be seen with them.
5. You just wanted to impress them.
6. You just wanted to pick their brains.
7. You just wanted something from them, like attention.
8. You just wanted to tease them.
9. You just wanted to be wanted.
10. You just wanted to feel important.
I could go on but I think you're getting the gist of this! There's nothing wrong with any of the above; it's just how truthful can you be? It is your personal truth that sets you free.
People may not like you for telling the truth but they will respect you and trust you. And I would say those aspects are more important, wouldn't you?
Can we really be so bold as to tell everybody the truth? Of course we can! It's the only way we're going to evolve and free ourselves from this controlled environment.
Humanity's collective evolvement can only come from individual change and example, so the fact that you are now aware of this knowledge places that responsibility partly on your shoulders....
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