How Certain Are You of What Is True?
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When I first entered the seminary to become a priest, I never missed morning prayer. I believed that if you were not sick, there was no excuse not to show up. After all, we had a wake up call every morning, and we could always ask a buddy to knock on our room door to wake us up.
So I believed if you missed morning prayer, you should be expelled from the seminary. I believed this to be true.
Three years later, I would occasionally miss morning prayer. I now believed that everyone went through phases. So missing morning was no reason to expel a student. I believed this to be true.
Two drastically opposite ideas of the truth with one thing in common: At the time, there was no doubt in my mind. I firmly believed them to be true. Now, at 45, I wonder how in time I might come to believe the opposite of what seems today to be true.
What shall we make of this?
One possibility it being based on
當”事實在眼前”
When “the facts are in sight”
I realized that it happens to me too and people around me…
the other based on past experience which means will stay true for a long while until that past experience has been overcome or erased..
Thanks for the reflection!
Great insight, Rose! Thanks.