The most difficult war is the one you fight against yourself. Against yourself? What does this mean? Self is what belongs to us, what we are? What are we? Well listen, we belong to the human race and human being is divided into two sensible parts. Two parts which had always being in conflict against each other. One has a power which always place it aver the other, even though this other is the most rational.
Corporal and material desire are two indispensable things to the human flesh. But man finds himself in a situation where he does not know the decision to make. Simply because in one hand, he receives a message encouraging him to do, and at the other hand, he receives another message preventing him to do, and these messages come at the same time. So he becomes confused.
Like the one who wants to commit a crime, he happens to find himself in this situation, therefore between to contradictory ideas; should I do it or not? But in a short time, the work is done even when he knows that it should not be done. He thinks with his head without paying attention to what the other part of his body are doing, as the body tends to move towards its caprice. But shortly after the deed had been done, he regret. Why? He regret because he realize that he was wrong. Here there is something else that takes the lead: this is Reason. Few moments ago, it was Passion. This Passion is very powerful that the rational sword had problem in combatting it. It is only after this defeat that man says, "But why did I do it?" Then he assured himself that next time it will not be the case. Only that when the moment arrives, he suffer another defeat. A very difficult enemy to fight indeed!
What happens is that at the moment he is doing this evil, he does not think well with his head. It is his sentiments that takes the lead, and wherever Passion take the lead, what follows is catastrophic. "Do not do from what you feel but from what you think, for the intelligence of man can be found above and neither in the middle, nor below"
It is important to know that the opposition of Reason to Passion is like a revolution. It is difficult at the beginning, there are few people and it is the small against the big. But when it advance, and this few people do not stop, the result is always positive. This means that in the beginning, he must do this work of endurance. In a short time, his body will get used to it and finally, he will free himself from this whim.
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...for the intelligence of man can be found above, and neither in the middle nor below;
Above symbolizes the head, man's brain, the instrument of thoughts.
Middle symbolizes the heart, the home of feelings.
Below symbolizes the path between the two thighs, where some irrational passions may lead man to.
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RandomThis is a collection of texts written in the favor of man. Some of them aim at precise moments and incidents, while others treats topics like, friendliness, passion, tolerance, e.t.c. I welcome any criticism from my readers. For in dialogue I believ...
