In other words we can't wish away that which is inconvenient, waiting for us to change the way we live our life.
I'm often asked why I spend my life day, after day following my innermost inspiration to live my life as if my inner person is my real self.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.~ William Arthur Ward
The wind is also another symbol for The Holy Spirit our well esteemed friend directing us out of our self imposed troubles, into calmer waters where our cooperation with the wind steers us in the direction best suiting our needs.
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit. ~ John 3:8
Many times over the years after much consideration I have settled on a particular course of action, only to change my mind at the last minute, the result of an over powering response within my innermost self prompting me to take another direction. On each occasion I was grateful for the advice emerging at the appropriate moment to save me from making a grievous mistake.
Reality most of the time presents itself to us through our understandings being processed by our senses, leading us to believe that we are doing the right thing, per our perception that we are realists making a realistic decision serving our best interest.
“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
This quote registers well with me for in my own experience there are moments when my senses tell me this is the way to go, and my well proven inner most person asks me to follow another direction. Even in late life I continue to doubt that my inner self is reliable, despite many years following its wise advice based upon results that encourage me to maintain my trust enlightening my road ahead.
It is also my understanding that without doubt there can be no way we can compare our perceptions of reality, with the counsel provided by our inner life inviting us to maintain our growing loving friendship with The One leading us to reveal His plan for our life.
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also. The Apostle Thomas said that he would not believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, "My Lord and my God!" Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, "I do not believe till I see.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov
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