Shifting Mountain of Logic
Logic seems to be like a stony mountain peak: hard and unmovable, cold, lacking in life and feeling, something more akin to robots than living things, reaching for the absolute truth, clear air with a wide and far view that puts things in perspective and above the usual murky, foggy view of everyday life.
Yet it is an illusion. Logic is a mere tool of thought. One that most of the time serves to rationalize behaviour rather than make actual decisions. If you are honest about yourself, you will find you rarely use logic alone to make decisions. We are human, living being, with emotions, a subjective view hard-bounded by millions of years of evolution, thousands of years of culture and many years of personal development experiences.
We do not have an absolute objective clear view of anything. We don’t have the luxury of a mountain of logic from which to clearly view life. Only the illusion of such. An illusion that can turn on its head on the drop of a dime.
You might think you have an absolute logical perspective of a situation, and then realize that it was completely wrong or partial or just plain uncertain.
There is no refuge of objective logic. No Everest of the self from which to see it all. Logic is indeed a mountain. But it is a mountain among other mountains of your self. One that sometimes shifts under you. The trick is to shift along with it, be a river flowing onwards, not a rock being thrown about.
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