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| Henry Justice Ford |
From the Musician’s perspective everything is note, chord, range, rhythm and harmony.
From the Chemist’s perspective everything is element, phase, combining and combustion.
From the Engineer’s perspective everything is fixed or not fixed, stable, volatile, spacial and critical.
From the Priest’s perspective everything is virtuous or sinful, evil or god like, Christ-like, humble.
From the Gardener’s perspective everything is seasonal, thriving, or withering, abounding and alive.
From the Surgeon’s perspective everything is vapid, with responsibility and gravity, precise, heroic or futile.
From the Performer’s perspective everything is charming, persuasive, creative, laborious, other-worldly, rewarding.
From the child’s perspective everything is sunlit, grace-full, certain, unpredictable, entertaining, humorous, lit with love, warm with love, contained with love and content with love.
The scaffolding and bearings one must utilise in order to catch a thought, to interpret a fact, be able to reason, or perceive and interpret an event, requires a subset of facilities that vary from person to person.
This explains in part why the people who stood on a beach during a tsunami and watched transfixed whilst the wave pulled out, were waiting then for the wave to come back being unaware of any danger.
Reasoning is not merely a two part process. It is far more than receiving just a thought going backwards and forth - it is the handling of that very thought or reality utilising many measures of reference.
And the skills become faster throughout one’s life in forming these patterns of reasoning that will become foundational to later thinking.
The aforementioned occupations/characters did not create themselves - it is the individual who finds his suited path and nestles there.
The noviciate sees the world as temporal, and for this reason is not enamoured with material prospects but is rather aloof to acquisitiveness; he is prideful only with gratitude and never self-congratulatory.
The noviciate is far seeing - although present in the moment also. He can perceive the tides rise and fall - and in this he becomes a seer walking alongside the Divine.
Holiness is first and foremost his creed; and humour, gentle humour, his joy.
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