As the years go by, I have fewer things that I have settled beliefs about and more things that I’m trying to figure out. I realize that would alarm some people and make others feel as though they’d lost their foundation, but I see it as a good thing. I’m learning that when I say, “I believe this” — especially in an unqualified way — I’m shutting off inquiry and I’m making it harder for me to be honest with myself as I come up with new insights and encounter new pieces of information. I trust my conscious experience of reality as much as I can trust anything, but I’m much more interested in truth than in sticking with any particular belief that’s too ingrained to question. It puts me into scary territory at times, but it feels far more honest.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:02:20 +0000
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