Capacity for Careful Thought has Diminished Among Too Many of US

 Willingness is a Good Start      

              

We can do better:

              Perhaps from the lack of good reading, good conversation, and good teaching our capacity for careful thought has diminished. Now, among us, there seems to be less resistance to deceit and delusion than ever. We have strayed from well founded thinking, and instead of practicing sane judgement, have become subject incredulity, indignation, fear, false shame, hypocrisy, pride and, I have run out of breath.

                It seems that from our pride and lack of care for ourselves, we have failed to allow ourselves to strive to do that which is useful for others and pleasant for ourselves.

                We seem to have forgotten the meaning of work, although we often put much thinking and sweat into our doings.

      

We sometimes neglect teaching our children and youth to:

~ be cautious in sex and not to be promiscuous.

~ be outwardly courteous to all, but inwardly to remain free and never to put too much trust in anyone or any thing. This while remembering that if one has so little faith in the light switch that one does not use it, one may remain in the dark.

~ love work because it is useful and pleasing, and not because of payment by others, but rather for the joy the find in their work.

~ be open to new thoughts and new learnings.

~ devote some time to considering and reconsidering: emotions, feelings, doings, happenings, and processes.

~ remember that reality is the way to sanity and that the road of honesty may serve almost as well.

~ let their doings be useful to others and pleasing to themselves.

~ love and respect their parents as they learn to see them realistically.

 

                As a gift to ourselves, we can try to reconstitute or to fortify our capacity for careful thought with the following doings:

~ Develop our willingness to be more aware of our actual state of being, including feelings, emotions, and understandings.

~ Taking time for quiet contemplation of that which recently has been important. This is not a time for figuring things out.

~ Arrange opportunity for relaxed, thoughtful conversation or reading.

 

                Thank you for reading.

 

                                                                        

                                                                                                                           rcs