It is impossible to adequately express deep feeling with shallow words yet, through the ages, seers, psalmists, and poets have attempted to do so with various degrees of success. This verbal means of communication is unfortunately becoming a lost art in view of the constantly changing modes of modern communication. It seems ironic that the more advanced the technology, the less we are able to communicate, especially on a personal level.
Our ability to email and text family, friends and business associates across the globe and/or even across the table is dealing a final blow to “eloquent speech,” a former hallmark of social grace, economic or academic status as verbal communication becomes more awkward and obsolete.
It is amazing to watch children at earliest stages of growth express adverse deep emotions, strong wills and other personality traits through obsessive behavior, tears or temper tantrums that often carry over into adulthood if improperly managed. Regardless of age or stage of growth however, we inevitably must deal with oceans of emotions along our pilgrimage through this transitory earthly existence. Therefore, I continue to remind others, and myself “Nothing can ever happen to us throughout life, good or bad, that can ever be as important as our attitude towards it.”
We have heard it said that, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” To this we might add that any knowledge can be a dangerous thing if not properly applied or balanced with wisdom, volition, and subsequent action. Such imbalance often leads to oceans of emotions from lack of respect for the differences in others to whom our differences may be equally unfamiliar, awkward, or even offensive. We each are prone to await, hope and even pray for it some change in the other, over which we have no control, with no remote attempt to effect change in our thoughts and actions, over which we do have control but only of our own volition. Mere knowledge of this reality is insufficient in itself unless accompanied by voluntary action! The desired result is hardly instant, if ever fully achieved. The oceans of emotions are simply calmed through continuous sincere, efforts to relive the situation with the key word here being sincere.
“Wisdom and knowledge are close partners, each enhancing the other,” we have been further informed.
“Knowledge provides the power, wisdom the direction; knowledge supplies the resources, wisdom selects the suitable mode for the occasion and adheres to the voice from within that says what should be shared and what should be spared. Knowledge is the heavenly table spread with all sorts of celestial foods and wisdom the heavenly host choosing and offering to each hungry soul the food that suits its taste, its needs and its digestive powers.” According to the Baha’i Holy Writings, “Not everything that is known can be disclosed, nor can every timely utterance be considered as suited to the capacity of those who hear it.”
As we continue to deepen in divine knowledge and wisdom, even so will increase our ability to more effectively and respectively navigate through oceans of emotions to the calmer seas of self-transformation, as no home, village, state, or nation can ever be better than the individuals who compromise it.
Therefore, O, People be not careless of the virtues, which ye have been endowed, neither be neglectful of your high destiny!
