LONG BEYOND WHAT YOU SEE
Ako Philemon@akophilemon942119
10 hours ago
Look beyond what you see.
Not to the extreme lest passion makes us blind without reason.
Nothing drives a man to error like passion which takes away his reasoning.
Not too driven and not too still but a balance of the drive and being still is the harmony and the co-ordination.
Look beyond what you see,
Not with too much reverence lest you become an enemy of the truth out of your very obsession driven by passion which takes away reason.
Look beyond what you see, not with too much ridicule lest you become a simpleton and be destroyed by your very folly and stupidity.
For a balance between passion and reason is what puts us on course for a righteous and holy cause.
For too much passion veers off the track to the extreme and too much reason makes still in disbelief.
Belief does not necessarily make it so.
What we most often call belief is a change of our perception.
For what one holds in reverence, another beholds with contempt, makes a ridicule of it and what was once made a subject of ridicle soon becomes an object of faith, worship, reverence by the new convert.
Nothing so is now changed of his object of belief, faith, worship, reverence which he once ridiculed other than his very own perception which he or she terms conviction which is a set of self statutes of persuasion which is but an invisible driving force that causes such a domino effect of a spiritual awakening of such a soul.
For what people term belief, is one's conviction which is his very change of perception about that which he or she once termed a shit, thus made a public show of it.
For the object of worship is, was and would ever be whether we change in thoughts to worship or to ridicule.
Faith, belief doesn't change the object of our reverence, worship. It only alters our perception.
Thus, those with genuine minds are always played over by the ingenuine at heart.
For the same measure of belief we give to the truth is the same measure we ignorantly give to that which is not true as if it is true.
All in all, it stems from our self conviction, judgement, then a change of our perception upon that which we are about to behold.
So, many ingenuine minds play over the genuine.
For none is easy to play, cheat than an honest man. For all is true to him and falls and easy prey to the craft of others because he is true to others and takes everyone so nonetheless the froward who disbelieves everything, everyone because they themselves are so.
Most often, being played, deceived is not a show of folly but of a good heart which falls to all good that tempts the heart. Like attracts its like and so the good at heart gravitate to all that appears of, showcase their genuine nature. Nevertheless, not all that glitter is gold. Even in gold, there is the dross and in the bed of roses, thistles.
While belief in the truth makes one better, belief in that which is deception, manipulation makes one sorrowful, regretful.
Thus, belief can mar or make us.
So, combine passion and reason and not being driven by one state to the extreme.
Belief does not make it so, it's our perception that makes it so.
Change your thoughts on that which you revere and all that you would see is but a ridicule and change your thoughts upon that which you ridicule and you begin to revere and to worship.
The image upon the altar in shrines, temples, homes ... if not revered is just a wooden stump from the wild, a Pilar of clay, pile of plastic, a stone by the wayside decorated with paints but in reverence, the Divine to genuflect, kiss, adorn with precious ointments as the source of our hope, salvation, blessing and preservation.
So, a man is all that he thinks all day long; the very product of his thinking.
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