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Maturation of Faith: The Archer’s Pointed Arrow

In this world we cannot be greater than ourselves, but only ourselves. To feel without censor our most intimate and lonely true selves and touch no fire is to be great. No pointed object afterwards can bring harm. And only after that point can the great work be done as the mind is without distractions. We become archers and shoot our arrows, not only with might, but with faith in that the arrow will travel. This can only happen because we understand that the wind is how we can perfect our aim. What prey we must capture is not up to us either, for that hunger comes from ancestors in spirit. Or the internal structure of self which we feel as spirit, which plays the guide. Trusting that sense what is it that we see?

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I’ve had my own visions myself of great men who, though they met grave’s end before my birth, from what I knew of them intimately through dissecting their bodies of work I found in these men a closer brother than mine own biologically. It shows that what matters is this form of spirit that we have inbuilt. Whether or not we sense it in others becomes irrelevant, for nature ties the knot between us all, to allow us this sense of flattery of meeting and showing us another side of ourselves. Spirit is the true power of man and over man because it impresses us and then impels us towards betterment. It reveals knowledge and dispels horror to cast a new arrow that’s slicker and darts through the fog of external or internal oppression, and into a sight yet perceived by our own eye. Our own perceptions are too limited to see all that lies before us. This is undeniable. And still, what has yet to be perceived still exists.

Faith could only be the highest form of wisdom that exists. Science does measure, and prove to be verified again later, but faith is what has led us to becoming us. Each person has an original idea, as to be human is to innovate in someway and to think her or his own unique thought. This is the creation of the hypothesis. Based on observation we assume that because one thing has been seen, there could be something else that occurs afterwards. We go to further lengths to prove it, and then disprove it, so that our own ideas make sense from each angle. But without that first initial certainty or curiosity, large enough to move the thought into query, and then an act of discovering, there could be no discovery. Without faith there could be no reason. Whether seen as only a small electrical movement in the brain, or seen as something larger and supernatural, it still exists either way and serves a purpose: Not only to inspire man to rise higher, but to keep man grounded in fact. For to have faith may not always be enough to satisfy desire or to answer a query. However, to have faith in finding one’s own sense of enlightenment is what could be defined as the human goal, even exceeding even the pursuit of love or comfort. Because faith and reason exist in all of these pursuits. When we look for anything in this world we do so with faith. With any verb written, there is faith that precedes the stroke.

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