| THERE'S no shortage of opinion within this cosmos | | | | concerns us. |
| we call humanity, is there? And before we know it | | | | And it's only when we've let those words escape that |
| we're roped into delivering our "opinion," hatched in a | | | | we often realise (a micro-second too late) we've |
| split-second, pitted for or against some poor innocent | | | | transgressed the absent--if we're even aware. |
| often-times. Funny, do we care? It's assumed we do. | | | | Not buying into things that are really no concern of us |
| No one asks half the time. | | | | is a wisdom activity based in the truth that what goes |
| In an often disparate and postmodern world we can, | | | | around comes right back around at us, eventually. Of |
| however, be oh so easily trapped in proffering our | | | | course, we can't see this at the time, but our instincts |
| opinion. For the many who think it's their God-given | | | | and conscience know. This law of truth will be the |
| right, we really do have cause to think again. | | | | death of us (relationally) if we push it too far. |
| We know it backfires, so why do we do it? | | | | The principle of reversal says to us that what we sow |
| Instead... | | | | we shall reap; it's seriously funny how consistently this |
| Beckon a little common sense and season it with a | | | | works. Whether we're genuinely interested in other |
| spiritual calm. Whack it in the oven to cure and out | | | | people and what they think of us or not, there's very |
| comes a baked sense of fundamental peace ready to | | | | little more to be compelled by than saving our own |
| go the journey--at least until we're out of that situation. | | | | hide. That's the most basic of motives, surely. |
| It's a treasure to see the uncommitted look and | | | | As with all our activities of building and exercising virtue, |
| language of the body, as issues bound our way are | | | | we must apply the two golden strategies: |
| deflected back upon their perpetrator. | | | | It's about |
| Gossip is never becoming. Staying square in the | | | | 1) awareness and |
| middle--not taking a side--that's our best position. As | | | | 2) courageous, morally-responsible action. |
| neither part of the problem or solution we sidestep that | | | | Become aware of the trickery of buying into fallacy |
| curve ball, the hospital handpass. Even within the "safe" | | | | and then we have the opportunity to vest courage in |
| confines of our homes it's not safe to gossip; not that | | | | acting by not taking part. |
| the walls have ears or anything, it's the habit that most | | | | Buyer beware. Don't buy in the first place. It's a rip-off. |
