Freedom of Thought

Freedom of Thought

Freedom of thought

is as broad

as the world

in which we live.

There are as many

opportunities to choose

as there are concepts

to think about.

This can be frightening,

because it means

there are no holy ideas,

no sacred institutions

to hold onto,

but this uncertainty

merely reflects things

as they actually are.

All nature is a malleable,

dynamic environment

where change is unceasing

and nothing is spared

the winds of transformation.

Virtually everything

anyone knows in life

are a big collection

of guesses.

Remembering this

keeps you prepared

for the shifting sands of life.

When you are always willing

to reconsider what you believe,

your mode of existence

is better prepared

to accommodate

the chaos that is life.

Dewey Dirks ---adopted from “The Questioning Way”