[QUESTINY]

Originally Posted by NKA

there is a contradiction in that quote above...
i donno if it is just me or i dont comprehend the above quote well, but here it goes.

according to the quote above the ignorance is symbolized by darkness, and knowledge by light.

and the negetive or malevolent "photos and images" (these also include negetive news as well i presume), causes the state of mind to be in a "state of illusion, fear and ignorance"

but aren't they knowledge as well?
for those photos and images tell me the terrible result of the event in that image, and that is a lesson.
for case here, isn't knowing any possible way that war in iran which may lead to world war 3 not a valuable knowledge? whether it is negetive or not?
shouldn't i focus to remain to be my conscious self always?

isn't it fear and being helpless against events in those photos and images that make us ignore it?

or am i suppose to ignore or avoid these negetive images and photos, because it will put us in illusion or ignorance? there is the contradiction
or i may not have understood it.

secondly...

also, Henry Deacon said "Turn your gaze in the direction you wish to travel."
but what if i don't want to travel at all?
it seems the words are saying I should stay away from dark and move towards light. here the darkness is negetive thoughts like war, and the light is the "great peace".

but i do not want to walk towards light nor stay away from dark.
i want to turn this darkness in to light.
also, isn't the "great peace" or i would call it true peace the harmony of light and dark, where those two forces are harmonized through our understanding of them?
(now it's being seperated by our ignorance of them, especially the darkness)

it seems most prejudge the darkness, because like all things created by the creator has purpose, this darkness also has a profound purpose that is yet to be discovered.To my understanding of the darkness, i do not see the harm of having it. because you need darkness to see the light in you... if the world illuminated with light... you would fail to see the light in you, your own light, or your true colour. It seems darkness, was a way to test oneself, to see what they are made of or to reveal his true colour.

sry for long argument n sry henry for playing devil's advocate, i do appreciate your words... i am just following a latin proverb "to think is to live"

Great thoughts. I found myself reading it numerous times to see the irony and truth in it. Being stuck on this 3rd dimensional plane where all things physical has a positive and negative, yin and yang, male and female, light and dark, all duality to create a physical universe. Our soul is the only thing that transcend this duality to be one with the Universe. Thank you for your thought provoking post.