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Still on Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish:     but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. [KJV] Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint;     but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction. [NIV] Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;     But happy is he who keeps the law [NKJV] When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild.     But whoever obeys the law is joyful. [NLT]                                                      - Prov 29:18 http://www.challies.com/articles/where-there-is-no-vision-proverbs-2918 “Then, after doing all those things,     I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy.     Your old men will dream dreams,     and your young men will see visions .                                                      - Joel 2:28 [NLT]

If (Rudyard Kipling's)

If you can keep your head when all about you     Are losing theirs...; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,     Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating,     And yet don't look too good,  nor talk too wise; If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;     If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same; ...................................................................... If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,     Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common         touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;     If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute     With sixty seconds' wort

Vision, Perception and Reality

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"...eyes wide opened - a learned discipline; it can be taught, it can be practiced..."  - Isaac Lidsky. Courtesy - http://wallpapersafari.com/free-fall-foliage-wallpaper/ Fall is here. That time of the year when leaves change. Chlorophylls deplete while carotenoids and anthocyanins take a center stage - a beautiful orchestra and interplay of biochemistry wonderful to behold. However, what do we see? What do we perceive? And, what is ' it '? Oftentimes, things we see (or the things we choose to see) cloud our notion, and thus rob us of  the ' truth ' of what is. Seeing is believing - so said. It may however likewise be said that believing is seeing. The process of believing enlists elements of our thought processes - members of the image forming neural circuitry. A bilateral relationship that isn't without the other and feed off one another. Perhaps an example is the common situation in which the cup is half full or the cup is half empty. One may