The strongest concept of all
Question from the Internet:
“What are some concepts that are just as powerful as fate or destiny?”
I think that the concept that we can actually learn about and take our fate or destiny into our own hands is the strongest concept.
The concept of fate or destiny contains some inevitability but also blind helplessness in it.
It says that, on one hand, everything is predetermined; on the other hand, we do not know what is awaiting us, and as a result, we cannot prepare ourselves for what is coming. Thus we are like helpless driftwood being thrown from one side to the other by the waves, helplessly drowning in life from involuntary birth to mostly involuntary and constantly feared death.
What if we could actually research and understand the whole path we have to go through, which path is leading us to a unique and very high, Human evolutionary purpose in reality? What if we could learn this path, and prepare for each and every coming step, so by the time the different states come, we are already prepared, and we step into them as if we ourselves prepared and chose those states?
In the end, we go through the same path.
On the one hand, we have a predetermined fate or destiny, and we go through it without choosing the stages, the origin, and the end. On the other hand, since we learn about and prepare ourselves for the stages, we tangibkly and viscerally feel as if we ourselves designed the path — since we understand that there is no better or more perfect path than what is created for us — and we feel in total control over our fate and the fate of the whole system we became partners with.
And this is all available and open for all of us.
We can, here and now, start learning about the evolutionary path we are on and have to go through. We can prepare ourselves for each and every stage, becoming conscious and proactive participants in our own development.
Moreover, the whole process elevates us above our originally blind and instinctive consciousness and perception of reality. We gain total attainment and outlook on the system of reality beyond the inherently egocentric and subjective limitations of time, space, physical life, or death.
I think this is a very strong concept, the strongest of all, a concept we can implement in practice.