ABCD of dilemma of life

ABCD of dilemma of life is as to what to Accept, Believe, Choose, Decide etc.

Culprits are comfort zones, confirmation biases, identity or ideology fixation /veneration and inevitable requirement of security of status and all these leading to fear of the unknown.

The human mind is a pendulum set in motion and swinging between the influences of pleasure on one side and pressure of the well accepted and appreciated methods etc on the other side and this swinging pendulum in constant motion along with a huge curtain of many other things together block our view of seeing anything new.

Life is an unmapped atlas which gets its maps based on our choices, beliefs, actions, reactions, thoughts, attitudes etc and it is in our hands to make each one of these continents as great and as good as possible. That’s why in every subject new and startling discoveries and newer revelations emerge every day, some reinforcing existing facts , some refuting existing facts etc and this happens in all spheres including science, archeological evidences, genetic evidences ,DNA studies etc.

We are programmed by habit and constant preconditioning to create defenses against and make fences around us towards anything new [it could be good, better, best or bad I desist from using the usual good, bad and ugly as it has more negatives] that crop up in us or around us. It is a sort of protectionism that goes to envelop in some specific identity or label and further firm up our prejudices and prevent us from experiencing the new. Gradually this identity creates such strong concrete walls that enforce us to experience life only in terms of what is approved of by and within the ambit of that identity.

Idries Shah the great Sufi writer says in Reflections

“You have not forgotten to remember;
  You have remembered to forget.
  But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”

"Existence consists in the interplay of a plurality of elements whose true nature is indescribable and whose source is unknown. Combinations of these elements instantaneously flash into existence and instantaneously disappear, to be succeeded by new combinations of elements appearing in a strict causality." - Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre