Sunday, March 17, 2019
Friday, March 1, 2019
Part One: Discipline (Chapter One: Problems and Pain): "Life is difficult." "Thus (Also) Spoke Zarathustra"...or in this instance M Scott Peck
In his (Scott Peck's) classic tome, that is, The Road Less Travelled. Thus and so he opens his book. And he follows this up immediately with the following...
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
Nuff said! (And N.B. that though the original words are all Peck's, the italicization and capitalization - except for the single 'should' - is all mine; yes, I know exactly how he feels, and what he's on about...do I ever...)
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
Nuff said! (And N.B. that though the original words are all Peck's, the italicization and capitalization - except for the single 'should' - is all mine; yes, I know exactly how he feels, and what he's on about...do I ever...)
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