Sustain me with raisins,
    refresh me with apples;
    for I am faint with love.

Song of Songs

Creation is a conscious act. In our case, pre-existing ideas are selected and combined or shuffled in a unique way. This allows previously hidden similarities or connections to be revealed - bin there winking in plain sight. With that challenge embraced, to make things happen, to create the new, to resolve a dilemma, an essential portfolio of skillsets, inclusive of planning, strategizing and attention to detail, needs to be acquired or be at one's command. This would be a relative combination of cognitive, emotional, and physical skillsets, as the particular new creation (your innovation) demands. [{Take advantage of a MasterClass }]

The circle's symbolisms cross cultural boundaries. They cut through language barriers. Isn't it cool that no level of babble has yet been able to kerfuffle the circle's symbolic notions of totality, of wholeness, of timelessness, of perfectedness, of eternity, within which we always find, as it were, a yin and a yang. Wonder of wonders, everything we see exists together in delicate balance, though no matter who enters the circle - WOW - our circle remains in balance. Isn't that awesome? This may well be suggestive that a vast predominance of what's available to human knowledge and experience is still unrevealed; that it is an arena in which choices reflect desires and actions reveal possibility - a mere snapshot of the totality of existence, that there are inter-connected relationships not outwardly obvious, and that intention and outcome are inter-linked. Let's dive in.

Awareness - Trust - Reliance - Confidence - Credence

What one thinks matters. A lot. A great lot. What one thinks guides what one sees when anything comes before that eye, what one feels when touched, what one hears when sounds tickle the senses, what one tastes, what one smells. One's brain is a remarkable engine. And the mind is phenomenally capable. Thoughts shape belief. Belief shapes thought. Isn't that amazing? Absorb it. Belief is powerful.

Belief shapes thought like a potter shapes clay, like a sculptor re-shapes stone, like a builder shapes a house, that house which may become its home. Belief is a skilled practitioner.

Belief is an essential in life, a necessity, so magnificentt it's how wonderful we humans are made. Without trust there is no going. We are stuck. Apathy rises. Fears increase. Without belief there is no trust. Therein lies a conumdrum. The yin. And the yang. Without belief we are going nowhere.

We are internally and externally interlinked. Isn't that good, isn't it grand, aren't we awesome? Oooh! Can you walk on water? Queue the music. We're about to dive deeper.

Belief vs Truth vs Prejudice

Belief is acceptance of existence without evidence or proof. Belief is not a moral. It is not morality. It is an incredible force essential to sustainability. It is a superpower equitably available to ALL, nature or nurture not withstanding; to all peoples - good, bad, and indifferent. Belief doesn't care who you are; it rewards conviction.

Truth is elemental. Irreducible. Steadfast. Immutable. Truth stands on its own, continually upheld independent of requirement, testament, or agreement, regardless of doubt, dissension or discovery. Truth's potency is not a function of belief; truth is of its own nature unfalsifiable. It doesn't care what anyone thinks. It is badass courageous. Truth stands eternal.

Prejudice is a feeling, an inclination not based on actual experience, and is unusually resistant to rational influence. It is as stubborn as a weed. And it keeps coming.

Truth, belief and prejudice are not functionally interchangeable, even when implied, and often are. One may believe a truth; that truth remains true. One may believe anything that is not a truth and, though trusted as truth, it remains not true.

Without belief there is no going. When belief is equated as truth there is no growing; its future is stalled, its present is an illusion, its past is a shadow-dancer.

Prejudice is a burden that renders the present inaccessible. A-lot-a-lot of busy-busy, no progressing; a lot of construction, no building. It thrives in dry lands as well as in nourished fields.

Truth, belief and prejudice are the remarkable instruments in this symphony of the soul. We are the musicians. We are the sheet music. We are the conductors. We play the music. Let's play.

Value - A value is a way of being or believing that we hold most important. Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk - we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with those beliefs. - Brene Brown

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WHY BELIEF?

We pay more attention to the things we believe. That's human!