Have You Paused to Consider Reality?

Auminimua Il-lumin-ations per Paul J. Lehman author of The Greatness Factor

Have You Paused to Consider Reality?

The world in which we live is the result of our consideration. No one considers it quite the same as another. In our individuation we strive to perfect that which we encounter to make it more interesting or comfortable and convenient. Yet, beyond our consideration of the world, there is a constancy and beauty that surpasses understanding. This we usually ignore, take for granted and often destroy in our effort to "make the world a better place".

KNOWLEDGE

Do we?
By virtue of desire to know?
          need for education processed?
Lose True Knowledge?
Grunt and strain? At book and film?
       Dividing, subdividing? Prescribing, separating?
Devestating with pen and ink?
      That which beyond words is Whole and Complete?
How will I set my mind on these things?
     How can I know?
           Or can I know at all?
                  Absolutely, without fail, anything?
Do I counterfeit?
     And with surface words pretend at knowledge?
Is knowledge the unanswerable questioning?
     Or is knowledge my pretended and temporary answer?

     We tend to make up our minds about life and its circumstances from what we have been taught and what we have experienced. It is our consideration and subsequent "mental arrangement" of this information that we use as a "measuring stick" to find our way through the mental maze that we call life.
     Usually this measuring stick is not stable so we attempt to make it more secure with stories we recite and mental pictures we conjure up.
     Too often we ignore that which might be more True and Constant because it interferes with the basic story of our personal "operational reality". Instead we build mental barriers to fence out that which we are not ready to take into consideration. Thus we miss those moments that might expand our understanding.
     This leaves us searching endlessly for that which we have decided to ignore. We try to fill the gaps in our understanding with activity and entertainment, but secretly we know of our self-deception.

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