"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha
Let me have the temerity to go even beyond that. How bout even after you believe the thing that resonates with your position on the consciousness scale; you flip the script and reduce that belief to concept...something to be used to keep it moving?
Being a constantly curious cat (i heart alliteration!), I'm always reading. Some things I've found helpful, some potentially harmful if I was slacking on my discernment pimping. I regard them as signposts; energetic markers on the road to something Bigger. And when I reached that Bigger thing I realized that...surprise surprise I was now to bring it back down to Lisa-level and make it applicable. Only to me. My truth. My building block.
My personal enlightenment was that this block is fluid as the dickens. Beliefs are stories, personalities are skins, and truth is subjective. Folly is riding the back of any one set of rules, tenets, dogmas. Mind and heart should work symbiotically, becoming the perpetual threshing machine of All That Is. Fuck being flaky; this is about neutrality. Balance.
Become attached to any one way of living and thinking and you become a caricature of a character. Trite. Boring. Never realizing you've trapped yourself in a feedback loop. Same shit, different day. Or is it same shit, same day?
One never knows.
No new ideas, only new ways of making them felt. And that's the thing that I'm trying to be on. I don't seek to know all. I'm not building a tower of Babel in so much as I am constructing a ziggurat of Me. Who I am to everyone else means nothing. Self-gnosis overrides any other reality. One must first be conscious of their piece of consciousness in order to successfully out-picture what is inside. And you better make damn sure those insides are clear and free of distortions or you're going to have a doozy of a situation on your hands.
I like to see folks thinking beyond their usual, but I don't require it of them. To transcend Self means to pull up programming from the root; and I'm here to tell you that alone takes metahuman effort. Certainly I don't think the inner work I've done makes me better than anyone else. Believing that would introduce into my life equation the type of pride that always predates a fall from Grace. However, in relation to myself - I'm a lot better off.
Basically I'm living my life "like water over rocks and to-be-hung clocks, for the time soon will be afternoon and nightfall comes as late as day."
No more sleeping at the Wheel of Time.