Systems of Believe in the System of Believes

People often say you become what you think yourself to be. Some says who you are depends on what you do. I say we all have many different selves. Who you think, what you feel and what you do determines who you really are in your mind, that is one self you have. What you do and how others perceive your actions determine who you really are in THEIR minds, and that is another self you have. Depending on how many people you know, you've the equal number of "selves".

We cannot directly change how others look at us. They need to believe on their own that you changed or they realize that they had a misconception of you that will change how they look at you. What you think is not important to them because they cannot see or read what you think. However, they can see what you are doing and somehow feel what you feel (your emotions). Then again, that doesn't mean that what you think is not important at all, simply because what you think makes what you do and what you feel. What you do and what you feel points a direction for your thought to manifest. Like everything that we generally think is direct opposites, are actually in harmony. In simpler terms, if you think and not act, you are not doing anything. If you act and not think, you do things that ends up not meaning anything.

We also have to be aware of the things we go through that others do not and what others went through that we did not. No matter how much we feel we understand someone's plight, this someone will/might never believe we thoroughly understand how they feel because they believe. They believe that people who do not go through will never understand how they feel.

Bruce Lee has two quotes which I feel is really important in life. It goes something like you are limited by your own thinking. and the next is "Don't think. Feel." I think what Bruce Lee is trying to guide us, is that we gotta trust our guts/feelings from time to time because in another quote of his, he says that when we put too much thought into something, we will never get it done.

I'm not a biologist or a specialist but I do know that our body is built to continuously grow and evolve. Our brain is a really marvelous masterpiece that changes ourself as a whole on what we think we need to change. We should always remember this and harness this wonderful quality that is somehow bestowed upon us. When we meet with a challenge, never back down but this doesn't mean we should ever just go right into it. Calm yourself down, FEEL then THINK. Strike a balance and the solution will be there. In fact, I wouldn't be surprise if more than one solution appears right in front of you.

Be water, as Bruce Lee said. Even in Taoism, Water strikes with harshness, water flows smoothly. Water accepts and bears all. Water flows to the deepest ground and nourishes every being without asking for anything in return. Water remains non judgmental. The excellence of water is in the versatility of it's properties. It takes form of anything that contains it and breaks even the toughest rock with time. Learn from water, be water.