Behavior cannot be understood in terms of conscience intention alone; unless one considers the unconscious motives which determine an act one cannot understand the significance of the act to the actor.
Thus, engineered Malingering has quite evidently puzzled, irritated, and distressed John Q. Public for centuries over unbalanced possession being 9/10th of the law.
What all of the above fundamentally talks about can be best summed up as simply the redundant political party practices of Stupid selfish.
Characteristic of stupid selfishness is the total inability to discern between that which is self-destructive and that which is self-constructive.
So while selfishness is never a simple matter in addition it cannot be accurately perceived through simplistic thought processes.
Character histories integrally examined will always compass stupid selfishness's primarily were at the helm where decision doctrines became discounted to avoid the self-created pains of own doings, as fueled - by poor leadership.
The greatest of all illusions is the illusion of familiarity.
'CONTEMPLATION'
WE ARE A HASTY NATION BENT ON EXPERIENCING AS MUCH OF THE GET (OUT FROM UNDER) LIFE WE CAN.
The faster we move, the more we can see, do and produce.
The more we network, the more options will be ours.
The more options, the more living we can do.
For many the very notion of slowing down or saying no to an option is REPUGNANT!
We crowd our schedules and run late, under assumption at least we got our monies worth.
NO WONDER CONTEMPLATION HAS FALLEN ON HARD TIMES IN A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE ANCHOR THEIR IDENTITY ON THE SHIFTING SEAS OF PERFORMANCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS, CONTEMPLATION SEEMS INEFFECTIVE AND TOO UNPRODUCTIVE TO PURSUE FOR THE DAILY GRIND.
But it is contemplation, not just having experiences,
that truly opens us wide to life.
Experiences can be lost to us in the mad rush to simply accumulate more. Contemplation invites us to enter in to the moment 'WITH A HEART ALIVE' to whatever might happen.
It is not just thinking about or analyzing an event or person.
Contemplation asks us to 'SEE' with FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE.
It asks us to seek GOD and the "MEANINGS" threaded through our days and years, so that our experience of being embedded in the 'TRIUNE' life of God deepens and grows.
A contemplative person recognizes that every experience offers more than meets the eye. They know that "bidden or unbidden", God is present. Consequently are open to seeing the unseen world.
They sift the days for symbols and scan the sunsets for meaning.
They enter into the being of life, alert to trancendencies in ordinary things. They believe God may be found and reverenced if one is prepared to notice how marvelous and mysterious and personal life in this world is.
So contemplatives invite us into the moment and tell us to be.
A.W. Tozer writes in 'The Roots of Righteousness', "Historically the West has tended to throw its chief emphasis upon doing and the East upon being........
Where human nature perfect there would be no discrepancy between being and doing. The unfallen man would simply live from within, without giving it a thought. Sound Familiar?
His actions would be true expression of their inner being, but being is not rewarded in our society where doing is all that counts.
Doing is important, but eventually we come to the end of doing.
Tasks get done sooner or later. Experiences end for better or worse.
But we never come to the end of "BEING".
Being is a mystery that originated in the God who says, "I AM WHO I AM." Knowing God or another human being completely will always be beyond what we can know.
But through 'CONTEMPLATION', intimacy with God and others can grow. Gazing on God, our neighbor or the created order with Faith, Hope, and Love can increase our awareness and experience of both.
Contemplation can lead us out of ourselves and into realities
of which we only skimmed the surface before.
Share references: Karl Menninger-man against himself /Spiritual Disciplines Handbook- A.Calhoun.
"Contemplation is about waking up. To be contemplative is to experience and event fully,in all its aspects."
ReplyDelete(Ronald Rolheiser in The Shattered Lantern.)