Observing the Wind

 

The 17th-century British philosopher John Locke once said: “Knowledge is power.” Nevertheless, “Everything we know is gained from experience.” In other words, we gain mastery of a thing from doing, and not from knowing. Experience therefore is omnipotent.

Indeed, it is by degree that we become whatsoever we desire to be. However, another school of thought holds it that if one learns from the experiences of others, a mistake, so to say, one won’t repeat. It’s an alternative way of saying, those who cannot learn from history are fated to repeat it.

The last statements buttress the importance of learning from experience. The challenge however is, there is among an increasing few a tendency to forge or rather who have forged their future from the experiences of people of little minds, people of low mentality, and people whose object of life has been shaped by circumstance and condition. To that effect, they seek approbation from the opinions and paradigms of dysfunctional groups of people in the society. They keep their eyes fixedobserving the wind and never sowing in their minds an ideal of the person they desire to be.

The injunction as a man thinks so is he is a sound advice as far as it goes. But if the source of your thoughts is pickled with experiences of people of little minds, then your thoughts will assume those experiences; and your beliefs and conclusion will ultimately become polluted.  The result is a life of conservative mentality. Hearing negative experiences from people of little minds who do not understand the truth of sowing the right seed in their minds will truncate your thoughtsif it does anything, it will only cast shadow of a doubt in your path. You mustn’t permit this to happen to you. Their negative experiences should not be the image in your mind.

On the contrary, one with innovative mentality will not observe the wind, rather would send one’s thoughts to go prepare a place in one’s imagination: for a bird of the air shall carry the thoughts, and that which have wings shall come take one into it reality.

You will never improve yourself by dwelling on the drawbacks of your neighbour. You’ve got to forge your own path. Place in your imagination images of success, health and abundance. For mental images are concentrated energy; and energy concentrated on any particular purpose becomes power. To paraphrase Einstein, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” In other words, a mental image centred upon with singleness of purpose is omnipotent.