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There’s a surprising way of thinking that seems to be good, sometimes independent and even positively powerful. Yet it is a subtle manner of giving up. To understand this, you first want to grasp the idea ofconcepts.
A concept does not have to be true in the beginning. But once it is believed, it happens. Now, concepts are ideas. You can be more artistic with them than any Picasso or Van Gogh could ever hope to be with ink on their canvases. This means two desirable ideas can be in one experience without violating each other. In fact, only the idea that implies the absence of another idea cannot be co-experienced with each other.
Now, there’s an aphorism I recently saw on someone’s status. He said: “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” I found out it was attributed to one Frederick Douglass. Frederick just confessed to giving up on enjoying the respect andhonour of his fellow man and he painted his idea of giving up on this noble thing with the illusion that having the respect of a fellow man negated being true to oneself while losing that respect helped to avoid self-abhorrence. Well, he just abhorred his own social life.
A human is a comprehensive being. He’s not merely personal/soulful but also social, material, biological and emotional. When you use the satisfaction of one of these aspects to justify your experience of giving up on the satisfaction of another aspect, you are violating your own humanity. There’s nodivinity in violating our humanity because we as humans are made in the image of God, and to violate that is to forsake the divine ideal.
The question is how do you enjoy the company of other people when you are intimately suspicious that they hate your sense of truth to yourself? You don’t. But you need to meet the baker, the farmer and the treasurer in your world. They also need to meet you. You’re customers of each other, neighbours of each other and countrymen to each other. So, why tell them in your mind, in your firm belief, that they ridicule you for being yourself?
Ideas are more flexible than the ink. Frederick can dream up a world where these others love him even more and find him particularly inspiring because he is true to himself. Then both the ridicule and self-abhorrence are disappeared. You must train your mind to want both good things rather than see them as mutually exclusive alternatives that you have to give up on one for. Persevere for the ideals and you will rise above pesky concepts that look good but are a subtle act of giving up on yourself little by little. Don’t do that.
Docreativity. You are in the image of God, and God creates. Imitate that.
Adelere
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