Your secret weapon

My 'secret weapon' is simply knowing this: I know nothing.

When you honestly take a look at life and at the human condition, it becomes blatantly apparent quite quickly that if everything you perceive is a matrix-like reconstruction in your mental processes, which it irrefutably is, then you never can really know anything. Every cognizance, every decision, every discernment and every judgement is a leap of absolute faith that what you are experiencing is 'real' and the consequences you then experience arise from a world 'out there' which even though you cannot experience 'directly' certainly acts like it is there, even if, given the uncertainties of life, you may not be from one instant to the next.

I recognize and embrace both the reality of this condition and the uncertainty of it. It is constantly informing my perspective.

Other people seem to carry an unconscious blind faith that whatever they experience defines the entire universe. Sometimes I admit I am a little jealous of that - but then I think about just how small their universe really is, and I realize I can never go back.

Originally Posted by Kioma

My 'secret weapon' is simply knowing this: I know nothing.

When you honestly take a look at life and at the human condition, it becomes blatantly apparent quite quickly that if everything you perceive is a matrix-like reconstruction in your mental processes, which it irrefutably is, then you never can really know anything. Every cognizance, every decision, every discernment and every judgement is a leap of absolute faith that what you are experiencing is 'real' and the consequences you then experience arise from a world 'out there' which even though you cannot experience 'directly' certainly acts like it is there, even if, given the uncertainties of life, you may not be from one instant to the next.

I recognize and embrace both the reality of this condition and the uncertainty of it. It is constantly informing my perspective.

Other people seem to carry an unconscious blind faith that whatever they experience defines the entire universe. Sometimes I admit I am a little jealous of that - but then I think about just how small their universe really is, and I realize I can never go back.

How do you know you know nothing?

Originally Posted by ketzer

How do you know you know nothing?

Exactly.

You are very perceptive Ketzer. Keep it up! :)

Originally Posted by Kioma

Exactly.

You are very perceptive Ketzer. Keep it up! :)

Am I? I didn't know.

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TSQ (Truth Seeking Quotient)

[Luciphene]

Prayer.

I know it’s really corny but it’s true. When I pray, things turn out OK. I pray while I wash dishes, while I clean out pets, while I drive, while I wait for appointments lol. Whatever I want turns up. I never experience any real lack.

Birds too. I have two (and two not so tame) and I absolutely ADORE them. Princess Pea is my tame hen cockatiel, she’s 2. Chance is my baby boy. He’s just a few months old and he’s a nut job! He’s so funny. They’re my kids. They’re amazing! Pea is so loving, she comes up to my face and presses her warm little beak against my lips and sits there for 20 mins, sharing breath with me. They help me. They know me deeply and understand me. We have such a bond. When I need help, I cuddle them and love them, and I calm down and then, the universe rights itself and everything I need turns up.

When I’m sick with my chronic fatigue they sit on my pillow and preen my hair and eyebrows. Sometimes when life feels particularly hard, they are what keeps me going through this illness.

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Ritalin
Like eye seeing glasses for my scattered mind.

[ocean breeze]

Originally Posted by Luciphene

Prayer.

I know it’s really corny but it’s true. When I pray, things turn out OK. I pray while I wash dishes, while I clean out pets, while I drive, while I wait for appointments lol. Whatever I want turns up. I never experience any real lack.

I think a lot of people underestimate the power of prayer yet i too find that to be very powerful. More powerful than meditation in my opinion. A lot of people think prayer is a religious thing. It is not. You don't have to believe in a god to pray or for prayer to be effective.