BYWAYS

 

Byways are not only paths and routes that are smaller and lesser known,

 but ideas, conditions, concepts, and methods that are lesser known. 

While the main idea in any dogma stands out, many times 

the lesser instruments, or Byways, are overlooked.

Let us say that you are a methodical cook. The main idea of your efforts is to bake a chicken. To bake this chicken you must acquire it, prepare it, cook it, and finally, serve it. To have come to this main idea, you must believe in eating chicken, you must believe in the baking method of cooking the chicken, and you must abide by your preparations to ensure its end-state.

 

In any situation there is a large idea, and there are the ideas that brought the large idea forth. If you see an act of loving kindness, it may have been spontaneously given, but chances are good there has been some example set, there has been a belief and a thought-train that loving kindness is a right idea. There are Byways that have converged and emptied into the main idea.

 

Concentrate on a recent event, something central and pervasive within your culture. Whatever the event, different beliefs and reactions surround it. Now: what Byways may have led to this event? By fact, you cannot perfectly see and understand the main event without understanding the Byways that created it.

 

Find one condition, event, method, or belief in your life and study its Byways. Do the Byways surprise you? What may have poured into your greatest Love? Your greatest failure? Your greatest challenge? Your greatest Fear? Work to understand your self and you will gain wisdom in understanding others.

 

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

Friday, January 15, 2021

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