Image by Pathum Jayasekara via FlickrPlanting seeds of doubt in another is the validation and outward expression of your own unfulfilled promise to yourself.
Doubt is the producer of unrealized possibilities; the thief of the creators; the blinder of the expressive; the jailhouse keeper of imagination; and the puppeteer who controls thought.
The twin soul of fear is doubt. Who is a master magician capable of disguising itself as a nurturing friend, a caring mother, and the wise sage.
Rudyard Kipling wrote these wise words in his poem If: If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too.
Making the allowance means realizing and recognizing where others are coming from. Gauge that by asking: Is it a place where the greatest and grandest of your gifts are being validated, fined tuned, and uplifted or is it coming from the individual's unrealized pool of potential? Trust yourself and surround yourself with people who are going to be your champions just as you would champion them.
Leaders need to be lead; the rest will follow. Are you the rest or are you the leader?
There is only one Buddha on the road, don't doubt it because it is you.
But then again, this is just my Opinion.
2 comments:
Very interesting. It's something I hadn't thought about, but what you've written makes sense, especially about fear and doubt being twin souls.
Having said that, I would also like to point out that doubt, if used with a fine-tuned intuition, can be a pointer for things that aren't the way they should be. Sometimes there's a nagging doubt hovering at the periphery of our vision. I think it's wise during such times to pause and examine the cause for that doubt.
In a way that validates what you've been saying. The very existence of doubt implies that all is not well. So if one detects its presence, then in all likelihood, the situation that one is in needs to be revised, or at the least, re-examined.
P.S. Sorry for the loooooong comment!
Thank you Swati for that insight and additional thought. And no... it was not too long. The story sparked something and I appreciate your wise contribution!
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