It was cold and raw that day in 1610 when a French mathematician named Rene Descartes pulled his cloak around him and climbed into the side compartment of a large stove.  Descartes had been wrestling for weeks with questions of doubt and reason in his search for some certainty of a philosophical system.  As he warmed himself in his stove, his imagination began glowing with the light of reason, and he resolved to doubt everything that could possibly be doubted.

Hours later, Descartes emerged, having determined that there was only one thing he could not doubt, and that was the fact that he doubted.  A good day’s work.  Descartes drew the conclusion, Cogito, ergo Sum.  “I think, therefore I am.”   Then he went out for a cognac.

–from Against the Night by Charles Colson

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1733/

ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths of this kind of merger — long-predicted events called kilonovae — disperse heavy elements such as gold and platinum throughout the Universe. This discovery, published in several papers in the journal Nature and elsewhere, also provides the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars

“Put yourself in the path of lightning.”

–Valerie Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is an American lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. She served as the Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement …Wikipedia

“Muhammad is considered the prototype of the true mujahid, or fighter in the Path of God, one who values the Path of God more than life, wealth, or family.  He is thought to have had no desire for worldly power, wealth, or prestige.  By fasting and prayer, he continually exerted himself toward the One, in the Greater Jihad.  In defending the Medina community of the faithful against the attacking Meccans, he was acting from the purest of motives.  It is believed that a true mujahid who dies in defense of the faith goes straight to paradise, for he has already fought the Greater Jihad, killing his ego.”

–Mary Pat Fisher from “Living Religions”

Christ spend seventy percent of his whole life in meditation.  He would sleep rarely.  All  day he gave himself to healing the sick.  At night he wold pray, sometimes all night.  He was not seeking his own self-realization.  His meditation and prayer were not for himself but for the world–for every human being.  He held the world in his consciousness through prayer, not with attachment but with compassion.  He groaned and he suffered with humanity.  To follow Jesus in the way of the cross means to say, “I lay aside all personal ambition and dedicate myself to God: ‘Here I am, God. I belong to you. I have no idea where to go.  It matters not what I am, so long as You lead me.'”

–Syrian Orthodox bishop Paulos Mar Gregorios of India, past President of the World Council of Churches (“Living Religions” by Mary Pat Fisher)

“Have you ever made ridiculous decisions. Most of have done this many times. We waste our precious life energy on forms of self deception.  Our time could be lived and spent more wisely.”

“I have made a choice but  I really jumped to a conclusion.  I am impulsive!  I say its time to bust myself and come out and be honest about it.

Prejudice and pre judged and made a decision about a person. I have gotten older, I have gotten wiser!  I have because of my avoidance of pain.  Or maybe ilI spent time blaming some outside influences.  Now I STOP and wait while I observe.  No accusations. I don’t victimize myself and others without knowing it.  Even how I reduce things down to how only I look at it.  I look at it from many angles.   Some times I have to be humble and say I am sorry when I do make bad decisions.   I must learn the facts.  Not just what my senses report, but from the evidence of absolute reality.  And infinite birthless Identity helps, to get a universal intelligence as one of the viewpoints.  Not from my personality, but as God views the situation or person.  I don’t have any skin in the game as far as getting anything.  No competition or ambition.  a justice that is universal, not me as a person with my story.

I make decisions based on false information.  Releaive truth or facts are specific.  Absolute is all and everything, so nothing.   We are given false information by others interpretation of a person or situation.   I am sure it has happened to you a zillion times.  You just didn’t know it at the time I am lying to myself and jumping to conclusions.  Right now look back in your life and see what your dailly prejudices have messed up your thinking and made a contract that you been filling, a marriage, a job, a judgement that haunts you and you won’t admit it.  We are mostly in denial about that.  We are never wrong.  I am  smart you say to yourself.  We sometimes defend a decision because of our Pride.  I would have been much happier if I would of slowed down and not thought so premature.  And not wise.  Wisdom is based on observation and consequences from experiences.  Mind AND others!  Take it all in and let it marinade.  Let the flavors of the data mix in the bowl of your conscious observation.  Remember, you don’t get anything out of this in this process.  You just gather and document in your awareness center. We each actually jump to conclusions daily and monthly and with our years we spend.  Spend wisely.  Self observe.  It gives a window to align with what is.  With Infinite Mind or Source.

“I have been looking over the over whelming evidence that is contradictory, sometimes there is hypocritical assumptions and conclusions based on totally false major and minor premises in my thinking.i  We would be so embarrassed if people knew.

So to be smart, and objective, please take take your time.  Observe what is going on from a position of that your not getting thing out of making the decision.  You have no skin in the game.  That allows you to be crystal in your observations, research and perspective.  Try creating an awareness center to just observe from a distance.  Not trying to prove this is right or wrong, or in a grey area between the extremes of your discernment.  Let me know how it goes.  I use a camera visual perspective filming from above.  I even later edit the rushes, as in Hollywood studios I worked in.  Then do your post production and see what you think after editing based on Truth, the facts that you discerned.   You are playing detective with yourself.  IT IS VERY THERAPEUTIC if you try it.  I have for years.  Slow down and watch.  I call it the High Watch.”

Robert McEwen, H.W., M.
Mentor Life Coach
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