Daily Meditation: Saturday, March 20, 2004

Selection - to make amongst tastes and opinions

03/20/2004

Each of us comes into the world endowed with a certain psychic make-up, and because of this we are inclined to take on certain opinions and tastes rather than others, and to adopt certain behaviour. This is natural and normal. But we also come into the world with critical faculties, with powers of reason that help us to make choices in all of this. So instead of being carried away by our impulses, we must at the very least say to ourselves: ‘Alright, I see and feel things in a certain way, but some people are perhaps better informed than I am, because they have studied much longer. For the time being, I am not going to express myself until I too have studied.' You must stop endlessly repeating: ‘As for me, I think …Personally, I find that…' with the conviction that you are in the right because, even if your points of view are justified, there is always progress to be made. Yes, your intelligence and your conduct can always be improved.