Conventional wisdom tells us that “The believer is happy; the doubter is wise”, and yet the Soul knows that to believe anything with certainty is to castrate one’s Faith therein, and that to doubt The Way of Love — no matter how dark & foreboding it appears — is to stray from all Truth & […]
Conventional wisdom tells us that “The soft answer turns away wrath”, and yet the Soul knows that to turn away from the wrathful (and all others otherwise “undeserving”) is to abandon our greatest Blessing …
Conventional wisdom says that “It takes a village to raise a child”, and yet the Soul knows the far more potent Truth — that only when its children are raised to be Kind does a village become a real Community …
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Many hands make for light work”, and yet the Soul knows that all work that is easy invariably makes for weak hands …
Conventional wisdom tells us “Show me your friends and I will show you your character”, and yet the Soul knows that a character that distinguishes “friend” from “enemy” is a character not worth knowing at all …
Conventional wisdom tells us that “What you give, you receive ten times over”, and yet the Soul knows that there can be no Good truly given while pondering what “good” might return thereby …
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Every cloud has a silver lining”, and yet the Soul knows that there is actually no such thing — that the Sun shines without fail through all clouds onto all beings in every moment …
Conventional wisdom tells us that we are to “Act as though it were impossible to fail”, and yet the Soul knows that as long as we do indeed act, it IS impossible to fail … for it is choosing not to act that is the only real failure …
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Anyone who has riches but doesn’t cherish them will soon be poor”, and yet the Soul knows that we are all already fully Blessed, and that anyone who longs for more immediately knows a poverty deeper & most complete …
Conventional wisdom tells us “Where there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; where there is none, beauty becomes ugliness”. The Soul, on the other hand, knows that any character that judges anything or anyone to be “ugly” is a character not worth keeping …
Conventional wisdom tells us that “Love is a tyrant who spares no one”, and yet the Soul knows that Love, by its very nature, cannot ever be a dictator — that Love is the essence of Freedom; that Love is the liberator of all beings from all oppressions …
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