Perception

                                                              Conviction

 Conviction is a faith which is  free from doubt. Faith without doubt is the result of meekness. Without doubt, there is no reasoning. There is no thinking at all. Not everything needs to be thought, with reasoning. But accepting everything without thinking is difficult. Believing  something simple and obvious with meekness does not cause much harm. But accepting something difficult and complex with meekness is bound to cost a price.

 Faith that is born of meekness is weak. It locks the heart so that it is not open to new perspectives. Faith that locks the heart makes it extreme. Faith that opens the heart brings comfort. Faith that locks the heart is not true faith, but superstition. Superstition is based not on knowledge but on habit. When habit precedes knowledge, it is usually not good. But habit that follows knowledge is often, but not always, good.

Meekness is good when it is not restrained by knowledge, but when it is supported. Meekness, when restrained by knowledge, makes  suspicious to everything. But when supported by knowledge, it makes logical or researcher. If a person goes from doubt to research, he becomes a true believer. But if he cannot go from doubt to research, he becomes a cunning apostate. Not finding any facts makes a person absolutely suspicious. Finding facts makes a researcher. A researcher goes from facts to the whole truth .

 But the suspicious one cannot go. The fact creates faith. And faith shows us the complete truth, which is not seen in reality, but it can be seen clearly in imagination. But the suspicious, since he has no imagination, finds it difficult to believe.

 The solution to this is that no matter how much we know, we must not lose our meekness. When meekness and knowledge go hand in hand, they create right faith and good habits.

But when meekness and knowledge are contradicted, they produce superstition and bad habits. Meekness and bad knowledge do not go together. But good knowledge is very much in love with meekness. So that make your faith strong, by keeping good knowledge and meekness hand in hand.  

 A person pays more for lack of meekness than for his meekness. We may suffer much for meekness, but whatever it is, the end of meekness is honor. The end of losing meekness is disgrace. The arrogance of the rich comes from the loss of meekness. The cunning of the wise is the result of abandoning meekness. The cruelty of the authorities is the result of neglecting meekness. 

Trust and forgiveness are the results of meekness. Without trust in this world, life and work will be difficult. Without forgetting wrongs, living together will be difficult. Forgetting wrongs brings peace. Holding wrongs creates chaos. 

The key to peace is meekness. It is very difficult to think of peace without meekness. External peace is a reflection of internal peace. Internal peace is the gift of forgetting wrongs. Forgetting wrongs is possible only if we have meekness. Meekness is essential for peace, and mindfulness is essential for strong faith.

 Meekness alone does not make faith strong. Strong faith is created when meekness is supported by mindfulness.

 Mindfulness is what makes a man a researcher. If work is not done carefully, the results will be bad. Money is not handled mindfully, it is wasted. Medicine not handled carefully becomes poison. A marriage not handled mindfully leaves children to the street, a husband and wife be single. Careless handling of power leads to imprisonment. For this, we must know what we are doing, practice doing what we know. 

Then we will be mindful. Otherwise, we will be heartless. We will be fools who do not know what we are doing, do not want to do what we know. If we do something knowingly, our belief will be the result of experience, not habit. But if we do it instinctively, our belief will be the result of habit. Experience is a good habit. But bad habit is not experience. It is a veil that protects the true identity of a person.

 A bad habit that arises from knowledge is the result of evil. But a bad habit that arises from ignorance is the result of meekness. Mindfulness is the power that frees us from both. Mindfulness is the soldier who protects meekness from danger. When a person lives only in meekness, he always lives in a war zone.

 But if he is mindful, he will protect himself from the war zone. Extremism, racism, fanaticism are almost always the negative beliefs that meekness gave birth to. Beliefs that lock the heart. It is mindfulness that saves us from this superstition.

 Mindfulness is the sieve that separates good from bad, truth from error, chaff from grain. Meekness creates faith. Mindfulness perfects faith. Meekness is the foundation of faith. Mindfulness is the dome of faith. With meekness, we believe simply. But with mindfulness, we believe clearly. And pure faith opens the heart, not closes it.

 An open heart is a humble heart. It is ready to receive better ideas from relatives and friends, from the rich and the poor, from the powerful and the simple, from the child and the adult. A humble heart is balanced. It does not discriminate against anyone for its own sake. It biase for the truth and the best ideas. For our faith to be strong enough, meekness alone is not enough; mindfulness is critically necessary.

      "Meekness is necessary to create faith, and mindfulness is necessary to strengthen faith."