250120 What I learned in my studies this morning 5*

Today's Meditation(s):

The Creative Act, Rules (Rubin)

This reminded me of a quote from Shaw: “Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.”

Things I learned in the background — whether from a childhood since forgotten, from unconscious osmosis, or from my imagination / subconscious whole-cloth  and without a source — can limit me.  The more I take them as expressions of Truth about the world, the more so they can stymie.

Some assumptions / rules are true. 2 + 2 = 4. Light travels at 299,792,458 m/s. Etc.

Almost nothing else is hard and fast, strictly delineating and always separating one thing from another. All these other things — taste, opinion, religion, morality, consciousness — admit to gray areas (more grey than anything else) and good and bad admixtures of the relative components.

I must learn to tolerate this ambiguity and to better navigate through the dusky world, lest I fall prey to vice and viciousness.