Random Musings. . .by Kui Gathua

  “ Follow reason but don’t ignore that gut feeling. We create reasons with our limited knowledge and experience, but gut feelings often come from universal knowledge. ” ~ Debasish Mridha Otherwise known as a primal response to subconscious information. Also known as your intuition. A knowledge possessed without relying on reason or inference. It is subtle and does not afford itself to reasoning – you just know but don’t know how or why you know. We can all cultivate intuition and learn to listen to that seemingly ‘other worldly’ voice. “It is not logic, it is not analysis, it is just knowing without knowing.” – Sophy Burnham Intuition can be extremely useful on a day to day basis. It causes us to choose one path instead of another, trust one person and not another, take one course and leave a seemingly obvious one. It comes in handy when making split second decisions in the course of the day – humans are estimated to make at least 35,000 decisions every day. If you relied ...

  “ If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. ” ~ Joseph Campbell   I just love listening to kids talk about what they want to become when they ‘grow up’. Such lofty dreams and visions, most of which never materialize. And this is not for lack of desire or faith. When we embark on a journey, most people at least have an idea of how long it will take, the route they will use and the estimated time of arrival, all things being constant: ceteris paribus. But, constancy is a theoretical concept, not a functional idea in reality. Life has a way of twisting and turning from one day to the next and sometimes it throws us into a tailspin we don’t seem to be able to slow down on our own. This is where resilience, patience, introspection and reflection come in handy to keep your sanity and hold you together in the thick of the storm. Such upheavals, if ha...

  “ Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes. ” ~ Fredrik Backman In the Book of Exodus (15:23), a story is told of how the Israelites walked in the Shur desert for 3 days without water. Thirsty, they were very happy to find water, only for the water to turn out to be bitter and undrinkable. They named the place ‘Marah’ which means bitterness. Bitterness can be defined as a state proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity; or marked by cynicism or resentment. A bitter person is like a balloon, so full of gas that’s dying to be released but is in the meantime churning angrily inside the confined space. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with a group of very bitter people. They were passionate about holding on to their bitterness, justifying it with a distorted understanding of their position and their issues. What st...