Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today ‘let us remember, ‘What we give our Attention to matters.’
Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices.
This week I bring to your attention a statement from the book titled ‘Knowing How to Know’. It is a collection of Tales, stories, fables, aphorisms and statements that draw our attention to the basic factors that must be in place so that knowledge and understanding is acquired.
It reveals concealed pattern, normally invisible to our customary modes of thought.
Keeping On
People are always asking me to tell them how to keep on keeping on.
But if persistence was not already their main characteristic, they wouldn’t keep on about it, would they?
Hardly anyone knows what he/she really needs.
That is why he/she will insist on being given what he/she imagines he/she needs.
Even if he/she gets that, you will notice, he/she imagines that he/she has not got it.
Someone has to step back to get perspective on this, because the world is littered with two kinds of exhausted people: those who try to get what they imagine they need, and those who have been worn out trying to give it to them.
Statement from ‘Knowing How to Know’ by Idries Shah
I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link: https://idriesshahfoundation.org/books/knowing-how-to-know/
Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.
Namaste!
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