Insight relies on mindset and a balanced perspective. It can be healthy to take time and ask ourselves: What are the major aspects that need to be in my sight and most important of my attention? What is the minor stuff that is clouding my insight?
Life’s journey requires insight into life and all of its intricacies. It shows us what is treasured and valued. Human understanding needs insight to fully understand and appreciate the spiritual world. Being in touch with one’s spiritual self gives greater insight into the complexity of life. In Aristotle’s construct, physical insight is natural, but ethical insight is learned.
Insight can be a miracle of perception; it can be a goal which helps us to continue exploring life and personal fulfilment of which one can aspire. Insight assists to develop a perspective of awareness. Herodotus said, “The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing”. Insight therefore requires a certain level of power, more so empowerment, so that the goal of ultimate peace of mind can be attained.
Insight is something regarded in spiritual circles as a gift. With all that we understand about insight, this gift is therefore in reach of all people should they choose to navigate these waters. Some may be raised in a way that makes insight an easily reached goal, while others may not. Some may be born naturally with the gifts that enable insight to come with ease. With life’s ebbs and flows no matter how we have developed or are developing our insight, it will wane at times in life, and return if we want it to, in order to show us new perspectives. The epiphones that come into life are burgeoning insights.
“May you have the hindsight to know where you have been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.”
Irish Proverb
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