Self Imposed Restrictions? Or do Numbers and Symbols really have meaning?

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Self Imposed Restrictions: Numbers & Symbols 

Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope life is treating you great! Let’s breathe and smile.

Have you watched the movie Matrix? Neo knocked down the vase after the Oracle told him to be careful. And she said to Neo, “If I haven’t told you, would you still break it?”

This point of view really resonates with my philosophy. I believe, and you don’t have to agree with me, that people create a cult with numbers and symbols. I am not going to speculate on this, but I believe that some numbers and some symbols served a purpose. They were like maps or mnemonics to help people memorize some information. But eventually the meaning was distorted or even lost, and I see people just paying attention to numbers, time on the clock, and I see people making decisions based on that.

I am not saying this is right or wrong. But I believe that we create our own world with our beliefs. I believe that numbers really mean nothing without our beliefs. Many of those signs come to reality not because a magic number turned out to be true, but because we set expectations in our mind based on that number, or symbol, or sign, and we receive what we expect. Not what we think we want, but what we expect.

Some of those superstitions are pretty harmless. Who cares if the building has 14th floor after the 12th. Nobody suffers. But what if somebody’s making an important life changing decision based on some magic numbers? Or based on the number of birds sitting on the electric wire across the street?

I know, sounds silly. Again, I am not saying this is right or wrong. Maybe that silly numerology or signology is a part of much bigger plan the creator put together, which I cannot even comprehend. Who knows. Just something for you to think about.

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Jin

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