What is perseverance? It must be that in which one accepts what is, what was, and what will be. This acceptance seems to be predicated on trust, but in what? Trust in oneself, or trust in the One who made you able to trust? That is an interesting question. I suppose if one must trust in himself, then an ego, by necessity has to project an image in which it can cling to in order to subsist at all. For what is it to say: “I am nothing, therefore I know not”, rather than: “I am X, therefore all things subject to and predicated of X, I am and know of”. That seems reasonable but perhaps it is not, for X surely cannot define you or me. So, if we invest ourselves as if we are the substance in which X derives from, then we must be deceiving ourselves to believe that we are where X begins and where it stops. This must be the root of pride then, that it is the fragile state of putting one’s essence as being that in which is assumed, such as X. So then, can this persevere? Perhaps for a time, until it is severely tested, and by ‘tested’, I mean when it is existentially proven false, and unable to handle severity in truth.
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