Hearing, listening and learning should lead us to implement life's harsh lessons into our every day living experiences. This is not the case for very, many people who of their own free will ignore, or decline the wisdom that life bequeaths on every person acknowledging our ignorance, and desiring to learn all that is sent to us, to grow us into people worthy of our willingness to learn.
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.~Ephesians 4:18
Not a few of my heroes such as Gandhi, and Einstein held racist views in their early life, changing with the passage of time to reflect their on going experiences with people of all races.
The Greek thinker, Heraclitus introduced his theory on The Logos (The Word) some three thousand years ago, inviting us also to consider his belief that change is an inherent feature of the human condition, whereby the wise pupil of life's journey learns something of value every day, assisting us better cope with, and transcend the trials that every human person is obliged to face to grow into a wiser person.
You who are simple, gain prudence;you who are foolish, set your hearts on it~Proverbs 8:5
Foolishness seeds a growing awareness that we need to change, to become much more aware of the presence in our life of a friend
(The Word) inviting us to listen to His advice filled with wisdom.
There is a risk that those with a superior intellect will believe that they do not need the input of Divine Wisdom, for they know it all. They, more than the rest of the herd, are prone to reject the wisdom that Our Father bestows on the humble, those who know they/we have much to learn.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
Gandhi in his early life living in South Africa was a racist when speaking of the local Black Africans he encountered every day. With time, and experience Gandhi learned that skin pigmentation was not a measure of a human being's humanity, or intelligence.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
~ Albert Einstein
In recent days the media has been discussing Albert Einstein's views on Asian peoples, made during his travels of The Far East. Professor Einstein changed his understandings during Germany's Nazi period when learning that ones perception can be both self destructive, and destructive of the very race that every human person is born into.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
~Leo Tolstoy
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