The Moment That Decides Your Faith (II)

Show your trust in the science of taking action, without allowing your convictions to align to a false reality.

A lamp hanging by the ceiling was burning slowly in the room where the body was laying. The stranger pointed to the bed, he asked the doctor to quickly make his work and went out the door in order not to attend the surgery. Zaleukos took his knives out, and watched the girl, whose face was extremely beautiful. Then, in order to finish faster this tough task, he cut off her neck at once, using his sharpest knife.

But what a terror ! The dead girl opened her eyes and then immediately closed them with a deep sigh. It was then that Zaleukos realized his diabolial act, he was her murderer. There was no doubt that the girl had died just then, because of the wound he caused her.

If you read "The Severed Hand", written by Wilhelm Hauff, you surely remember the rest of the story. Zelaukos was found guilty, was cut off his left hand and was relegated forever. He lived the rest of his life full of bitterness, with the memory of the atrocious act committed engraved on his soul.

Do you assume your creative presence under the silent call of consciousness that is heard only in the moment of balance of the creation you conceive?

Here's an action unworthy of a doctor. If Zaleukos had been a real doctor and hadn't left himself lured by huge rewards, things would have been different. He ought to carefully examine the girl's symptoms, but he didn't show the slightest concern about them. The girl, although she was asleep, wasn't breathing at all? Wasn't her heart beating? Wasn't she warm when touched? Yes, definitely, but, not making any thorough examinations, as it was normal for him to proceed, he passed indifferently over these vital clues. It was just when the girl, torn with pain, gave her last breath, that his bell rang, but it was already too late.

Rapid rewards are consistent with the value man gives himself in the situation of an eventual urgent task he has to accomplish in a context of the type: "it does not seem relevant to me". Things and phenomena that usually attract man’s attention vary according to innate predispositions, professional skills, and how quickly he opens his mind in a new direction.

Can you access those inner states that shape your true identity, beyond what you display, under the illusion of a limiting certainty?

The difference between a good doctor and a bad one is that the first does never confide in appearances, and he always carefully examines everything, while the second, convinced he knows everything, is superficial. Both professionally and by instinct, the doctor must be the most curious man in the world and must be capable to penetrate with his mind and soul into the physical and mental condition of the patient.

The alarm that can only be heard in the situation of accomplishing an urgent task is given by the possibility of learning of a mystery that is becoming more and more complicated as you accept the challenges of a deeper reality.

The outer reality reflects your inner reality. A huge similarity between two distinct worlds or between two facets of the same reality, each with its own moments of doubt, concerns the pattern of thinking, feeling, and living in a constant denial of the abilities to differentiate yourself from others.

Can your reason follow the deep echo of consciousness, transforming emotional experience into a vision that lucidly orders the meaning of your becoming?

All the experiences that you live come as a follow up of the resonation of your being with those vibration frequencies that shape your convictions in a positive or negative manner. Understanding these frequencies, rediscovered through the magical lens of objectivity, taking into account hypotheses of a current reality error, create the premises of a confrontation between what you are and the illusion of what you can become, limiting or extending the moral responsibility configuration.

Someone said well enough: "When someone reaches a more complex moral appreciation of a situation, he doesn’t do anything else but to react guided by these affective impulses of their conscience."

The reason that you manifest in withdrawal or expansion can be an effect of the lack of your own identity – that tends towards stiffness, deforming itself over a certain limit. By ignoring the depth perspective that can’t guarantee "the integrity of differential protection" (any bad thing that happens is your fault, reducing itself to suffering), you step away from the decision making pose, enhancing the possibility of making bigger and more severe compromises.

To be a man of sin means to carry within you the pressure of looking at life through the eyes of a victim created by your own choices.

The incapacity of the conscience to perceive as it should the uncontested reality disqualifies you as a person with a high responsibility sense.

We can talk about leadership when someone analyses himself more extensively, investigates reality and thinks about his limited condition exposed to existential or moral uncertainties. Setting the level of his intransigent lucidity, he can sense the opposition between how it reacts to external stimuli and the way it reacts to finding the truth – "who am I truly?" Here, his essential values can be useful in creating a positive transformation perspective.

In short, you can create an stable inner fundament after you shape the mental and real image of what you are. This can reduce or amplify the ambiguity of your identity.

Do you dare to unravel the mystery that opens up new worlds, without reading the signs of the connection between the "unknown" and the "unexpected"?

Instead of coming into play, assuming his quality of doctor, so that of a man who ought to be as curious as it gets, who thinks twice before drawing a conclusion, who doesn't limit to what he knows or what he finds out, Zaleukos acted as if he were on autopilot, as if someone else had taken the decision for him. Which, as we saw, was a big mistake.

f he had disconnected himself in time, if he had released himself from the enchainment of that material impulse and of the preconceived ideas by clicking the "stop" button, things would have been completely different.

Do you find a secret meaning in living in constant accusation, without being able to clearly distinguish the boundary between guilt and truth?

As a leader, your actions always have consequences. Just like a single moment of carelessness decided the fate of doctor Zaleukos, destroying his entire future, it could happen to you, too, a single moment that darkens your mind and your judgment can seriously endanger your career.

The higher you are in the hierarchy, the more people depend on you. And if you're not always able to connect yourself to the real reality, but you let yourself carried away or you don't constantly realize your limits, and especially if you don't ward yourself of any temptation, you will pay a high price.

Conclusion: We must take decisions during our entire life. Consequences show us if those decisions were good or not. It's important, especially for a leader, not to take hasty decisions without a prior thorough research, because consequences can be so damaging that they can reverberate throughout his life.

Show your trust in the science of taking action without allowing your convictions to align to a false reality.