Master Thyself
A talent I have yet to acquire, yet am coming to learn is quintessential to a fully-lived life, is learning to Master Thyself.
"Know Thyself," a term coined by an ancient Greek Philosopher, is important as well, especially if you plan on mastering yourself. You cannot master what you do not understand, but you can start. By starting, you can learn, or change what you don't understand into something you do, and can control.
Master Thyself is not a call to be a stoic sunuva bitch. Master Thyself is about learning who you are, what you're capable of, and then deliberately choosing what you will and will not do. Living by your standards, not subjecting yourself to your weaknesses. It's not that you will get rid of all of your faults, but it's a continual process of what you're working towards.
No-one's perfect, nor should you expect absolute perfection. This is, however, about doing everything within your capability to do what you know is right, and is best.
Truth is, it's not how difficult your problem may seem. It's about your focus on your solution. I read a lot, namely fiction. What I find in fiction, however, is a lot of truths. God used parables in the Bible for a reason, because they can contain a host of truths, morals and or lessons, all wrapped up in a package that's more easily remembered than a bunch of lists and laws.
A story I've been reading for awhile (It's a long story) has taught me a very important lesson, one that's very difficult to keep in mind: Focus on the solution, not the problem.
Let me say that another way: Don't focus on the problem, focus on the solution.
That means, if you're problem arises, stop thinking about the facts of the problem, and rather the facts of the solution. It's possible those facts may be the same, or they may not, but you have to look at them from a solution point of view.
Taking these into mind, your problems may number in the hundreds, but you still have to master them, even if it's one at a time. If it's an addiction, stop scratching it and focus on what you're going for. Freedom from the addiction. Embrace the freedom, and run with it. Go running. Do whatever you wanted to do after you were able to quit that addiction, then you'll already be giving yourself a better reason to quit.
Master Thyself - something God expects of us. We're not to be mindless creatures, roaming to and fro on the whims of our flesh and stupidity. Lord knows, we do enough of that often enough.
It's about controlling ourselves, so we can obey him. Not blindly, but with the understanding he made us capable of attaining. People are terribly mistaken if they think God wants us to be mindless automotons, wandering the Earth in hopes of bringing more souls into the mindless fold ...
We're absolutely stupid, ain't we?
The Christian, in essence, is a Blog for another day. Or maybe later tonight. But not now. Now, we work to Master Thyself 's ... whatever. You get what I'm saying.
"Know Thyself," a term coined by an ancient Greek Philosopher, is important as well, especially if you plan on mastering yourself. You cannot master what you do not understand, but you can start. By starting, you can learn, or change what you don't understand into something you do, and can control.
Master Thyself is not a call to be a stoic sunuva bitch. Master Thyself is about learning who you are, what you're capable of, and then deliberately choosing what you will and will not do. Living by your standards, not subjecting yourself to your weaknesses. It's not that you will get rid of all of your faults, but it's a continual process of what you're working towards.
No-one's perfect, nor should you expect absolute perfection. This is, however, about doing everything within your capability to do what you know is right, and is best.
Truth is, it's not how difficult your problem may seem. It's about your focus on your solution. I read a lot, namely fiction. What I find in fiction, however, is a lot of truths. God used parables in the Bible for a reason, because they can contain a host of truths, morals and or lessons, all wrapped up in a package that's more easily remembered than a bunch of lists and laws.
A story I've been reading for awhile (It's a long story) has taught me a very important lesson, one that's very difficult to keep in mind: Focus on the solution, not the problem.
Let me say that another way: Don't focus on the problem, focus on the solution.
That means, if you're problem arises, stop thinking about the facts of the problem, and rather the facts of the solution. It's possible those facts may be the same, or they may not, but you have to look at them from a solution point of view.
Taking these into mind, your problems may number in the hundreds, but you still have to master them, even if it's one at a time. If it's an addiction, stop scratching it and focus on what you're going for. Freedom from the addiction. Embrace the freedom, and run with it. Go running. Do whatever you wanted to do after you were able to quit that addiction, then you'll already be giving yourself a better reason to quit.
Master Thyself - something God expects of us. We're not to be mindless creatures, roaming to and fro on the whims of our flesh and stupidity. Lord knows, we do enough of that often enough.
It's about controlling ourselves, so we can obey him. Not blindly, but with the understanding he made us capable of attaining. People are terribly mistaken if they think God wants us to be mindless automotons, wandering the Earth in hopes of bringing more souls into the mindless fold ...
We're absolutely stupid, ain't we?
The Christian, in essence, is a Blog for another day. Or maybe later tonight. But not now. Now, we work to Master Thyself 's ... whatever. You get what I'm saying.
posted by Johnathan Cross at 8:29 PM
2 Comments:
I wonder why your articles just sound so nice... it has some deep meanings that i really am not able to understand. You gotta explain to me some day.
Very good thoughts on focusing on the solution and not problem. As long as those solutions are viable ones! (i.e. addictive people always are searching for the 'middle of the road' on our path of life)
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