I've long been a fan of Irving Berlin's music identifying the joys of living life, with the awareness that today is possibly our last. Irving Berlin possessed life enhancing insight born out of overwhelming difficulties he encountered in his early life. Possibly America's greatest popular music composer, Irving Berlin was a Jewish refugee fleeing persecution in his land of birth, Russia growing up in the United States to appreciate the opportunities that his adopted country offered him.
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ― John Lubbock
Perception is that awareness that we project into our field of understanding all that we believe is reality. Here lies a dilemma for very many people, facing an upward struggle to overcome their doubts, believing that the task ahead is impossible to realise. It can be said this is simply a matter of coming to terms with reality as we view it, or of throwing in the towel after our first, or second attempt to resolve the challenge facing us. There are those people who will never surrender to the thought that their daily struggles are anything but life enhancing. In other words success is always the result of trying to overcome fear of failing to face off the challenge currently facing us. Having succeeded in overcoming our last trial, the inspired explorer of life's journey soon understands that another trial is presenting us with our next opportunity to resolve yet another of our life's many puzzles.
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
A solitary perspective can be said to be an enemy of reality, as our innermost life reveals to us on our journey of self discovery. Creating a solution to what appears to be an overwhelming challenge, may well need us to change our perspective, sufficiently to learn that the remedy for all our difficulties resides within our conscious awareness, waiting for us to acknowledge His presence in our life, guiding us out of our fears, into trusting His wise advice in all matters.
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.
He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
~ John 16:13
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