Belief, Values, and Truth: Shaping Our Thinking

This article delves into the concept of belief, values, and truth and how they shape our thinking. It emphasizes the importance of being clear and specific in our expressions and highlights the significance of self-reliance. The author draws inspiration from Ralph Waldo Emerson's article on self-reliance to encourage readers to listen to their inner selves and follow their principles.

Be Specific. What to believe in, what you value, and
what you trust as truth. Who and what shaped your
thinking

In common thinking, it’s wise to remain humble. We need to trust our dispositions and hold the
resolution to place our thoughts to the world. Atheism stands to be precisely humble, yet
extensively misinterpreted. It includes the term theism by the prefix ‘a’. Thus break it in parts.
Theism symbolizes faith in “god or gods”. ‘A’ signifies--- ‘without’ or ‘absence of’.
Consequently, atheism implies “without a trust in god or else gods” otherwise the ‘absence of a
accepting the presence of God in everything. In my point of view, truly speaking, the essence of
natural objects in the environment holds the omnipotent power that governs all the natural
processes that control the universe. The planetary motions, movements of hurricane or wind,
river or sea-waves, incessant rainfalls, climate-variations…and all these are caused due to
natural phenomena and people attempt to discover the scientific and rational foundations
for its effect. There are some others who describe it as God’s actions. In fact, every activity
stands on logical math---true or false…nothing in between can occur
We ought to be precise in our expressions and maintain the clarity of speech without any
error. The meaning of the words, phrases or sentences need to be well judged and clearly
understood before conveying to others. The utterance of unnecessary words ought to be
avoided and our passions need to be expressed
However the dominant point remains that we must not disregard the inner undertones, which
might be hardly perceptible under the pressures of external stimuli and lack of confidence. They
might encompass spurs of intellect. In any case, the world’s utmost philosophers and
influential persons had the resolution to listen to themselves as well as to follow their
principles, without regarding exceedingly about conventions of social conducts, religious
behaviors, morals and what other persons might reflect.
I got the opportunity to go through “Ralph Waldo Emerson’s article on self-reliance”. “In each
effort of intellect we distinguish our particular forbidden thoughts,” Emerson composes. “They
retort to us through a convinced pattern of grandeur.” The contemplations or passions that we
want to withdraw cannot leave us In each book or image or movie that changes us, we react for
the reason that they express the feelings, emotions, thoughts or vision ---whatever we say, in the
direction of a truth we identify—if merely in our subconscious state. His philosophies were not
been valued as people in the present days recognize his outlook, logical way of thinking “To rely
on your identifiable thought, to accept as true whatever is accurate and intended for you inside

the secretive heart stands accurate for all … That remains like a genius,” he state. “Express your
hidden opinion and it stands about to exist in the general sense; rather than the sincere nature in
due stage turns out to stand as the exciting.”
So we must be unambiguous and specifically inclined to our inner self with boldness and
depth of thoughts and visions. The clarity and brevity of vocabularies must be maintained to
have a clear image in our own mind---what we think and what we feel should be real.
Undesirable language must be avoided. We ought to be determined to face every step boldly
and confidently. We should not be washed away with other’s passions or sentiments or even
religious viewpoints and attempt to realize the falsity of others. We must learn to give value
and listen to our hearts. Self-sufficiency and stress-free living is the paramount song of
existence.