"Step Away from the Joystick!"

The need to communicate a stance on doctrines of religion, politics, and social welfare quickly leaves the faculties of ones who have experienced the unseen canopy that shields all three.  These indviduals are no longer hung up (like moldy towels) on what is truth, what is right, and what is not (the incessant circle of bad is good and good is bad).  The truth is obvious for the one who really wants to behold its beauty.  It is constantly staring each one of us in the face like a built in mirror that SOMEHOW gets distorted (perhaps it is down in the Texas heat).

The arguments of the left and the arguments of the right mean nothing to someone who understands the underlying reason for there being a LEFT & a RIGHT.  This argument has thus then been reduced to that of a video game JOYSTICK (yeah, I'm showing my age)! Think about that for a minute, a joystick.

If you want more than the joystick for yourself, for those around you, and within the world you live, then you must "step away from the joystick" and travel down the path that demands you seek after those things that are true about yourself, about others, and about the world around you.

Be encouraged in knowing this...You were given your OWN mind and it is yours!  Grab ahold to it and realize you are only what it tells you you are!  So what are you, a joystick?  Use your own mind to answer that.

I feel the truth. I hear the truth. I see the truth. Isn’t that because I am of the truth? Because if I am here, or what I believe I am is HERE, then what else could I possibly know, but that? …That I am here and if I am here then there IS a here to be here & if there IS a here to be here then there is a BE here. I am who I say I am & that is all I know.

You Can't Do Anymore Than You Can Do!

Whether your mind tells you this or not, you do not have the power to do more than what you can do.  If you have done all you can do in a situation or under some circumstance, then what more can you do?

Yes, of course our minds love to dwell on our expectations and ideas, but have you ever stopped for a minute and wondered where your expectations and ideas originated from?  I have.  And while I was pondering that, I also realized that a lot of what I thought was my mind was not my really my mind at all.  It was the minds of my parents, my teachers, my friends, media writers, church leaders, and on and on.

It's kind of amusing now, in hindsight, how ridiculously unrealistic it was for me to hold on so tightly to expectations and ideas that I had never thought through for myself.  Not to say I would have been able to think them through as one without the experience or the insight it requires to think those things through.  However, what I am saying is that I now have the understanding that there have been thoughts, ideas, and beliefs installed or uploaded (for the techie generation) into my mind that I need to take time to think through for myself.

John Locke, a famous Enlightment thinker, said we are born into this world with a "blank slate" for a mind.  Meaning that our minds need to be programmed or written (like a book) by parents, caregivers, teachers, and society.  They are the ones responsible for laying and shaping the foundations of our minds.  Our perception of the world is not really ours until we take back control and find out for ourselves what this world is really all about.