Before, I used to always believe in the power of the human mind. It’s ability to adapt and overcome any situations, but the mind is limited to what it has learned and experienced. If it is closed off to possibility of higher understanding and deeper meaning, that power is limited. It is said the greatest mind knows that it knows nothing. Then where can further learning come from? Knowledge is confined to what is believed to be “rational” thought, limited to what can be seen and proven. Looking to the skies and stars won’t lead to deeper understanding because there is no knowledge given by celestial bodies. There is One without form that has given wisdom and path to deeper understanding. A mind closed off to this path is limited to its earthly understanding. A freed mind, knowing there is more than just this world, is open to wonder and potential. Perspective molded around gratitude and faith produces perseverance and character knowing that even the hardest times are given to us to make us better. Closed minds may ask “why me” and give in to hard times or try to fight through with reckless abandonment. Knowing trials are given for a reason and believing that the storm will pass helps to focus the mind on what it is suppose to learn going through those tough times. The power of the mind is choice, to choose which side to be on. We choose our perspectives on anything and everything, which mold our realities. Choose to humble ourselves and say that we are weak, clear the mind and ask for deeper understanding. Now I believe the true power of the human mind is to know it is powerless alone.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV
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