Pondering

So difficult it is to unlearn something.

Even more difficult is it to unlearn a conviction.

Beliefs are one thing, convictions another.

We must be patient with those who can’t see

As their present understanding blinds them.

When one sees without knowing,

One lacks knowledge to see.

To covet power is to reject life.

There are many things that lead to death

Only one that leads to life.

The way of life is the way of acceptance of what is;

Not of admitting defeat or failure;

but of acknowledging the circumstances

for what they are, as that is all they can be.

Circumstances are the results of all the choices

made by the collective mass of humanity.

What is . . . is the moment within which

circumstances are experienced.

What we add are perspectives

Through which we filter what we observe,

interpreting what we see rather than accepting what is.

There is what happened, and what we make it mean.

To covet a thing is to be controlled by that thing,

whether power, position, possession or passion.

To covet freedom is to be in want

of what you already have, and is already yours.