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An Answer...
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(or... How I Knew)
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By...
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Hurn
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Greetings, again, to ye who read this. Know Ye that, contained within
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this text, exists An Answer to a common Question. This Answer came, as
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such Answers are wont, during the Early Hours of the Morning, whilst this
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Author was engaged in contemplation of certain Matters of Spiritual
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Concern.
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WARNING! LET IT BE KNOWN THAT...
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1. This Answer is not claimed by its Author to Apply to Everyone...
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(In fact, it probably applies to but a small minority of people.)
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2. This Author is NOT, nor does he claim to be, infallible.
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(He has erred before, and will, most probably, err again.)
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(Hopefully, not the same mistake twice.)
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And so, with the above warnings fully understood, let us proceed...
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First, the Question, next, Answers which this Author has heard, and lastly,
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this Author's Answer.
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The Question:
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HOW CAN I BE SURE THAT I HAVE FOUND MY TRUE PATH?
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[nb. This Question may appear in different guises... (eg. How do I know
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that I have found my real religion? , How do I know that I am Right? ,
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ect..) ]
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Old Answers:
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1. If I have to ask, then it must not be the True Path.
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(A sarcastic Mystical Response)
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2. Because God Told Me So!
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(A "True Believer" in a "Personal"-Type Religion)
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3. Because I have Faith.
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(Another "True Believer")
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4. The Bible tells me so.
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(Trusts Bible more than Self)
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5. "Everyone else" believes this, so it must be right.
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(A Sheep, with the Herd Instinct in full effect)
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6. My Conscience/Heart/Inner Self/ect. tells me so.
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(Good Answer! But how many are Really "in tune" with themselves?)
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7. Because this is where I feel most comfortable, and it's "where I
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belong".
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(Another "good answer", but again, not totally conclusive.)
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8. I have "seen the Light", and will "change my ways", striving to do
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only that which is good.
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(Yet another "Good Answer", but, after having changed your mind
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once, who's to say you won't change it again?)
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And so on...
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Thus, while puzzling over the above Answers, and looking at past lives of
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others, the following theme was noticed: It seems that those who really
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think that they have found their True Path, tend to devote the rest of
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their lives to living in accordance with the way that they have found.
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Keeping this in mind, your humble author set out to examine his own
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lifestyle, to see if he had, indeed, altered his mode of living to that
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which would be proscribed by the Path that he had chosen. To this Author's
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surprise, he discovered that he had ALREADY been living by the said rules
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of his way for a number of years prior to and during the search/choice of a
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Path.
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New Answer:
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If the shoe fits, to the extent that one has been wearing that
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shoe for years and never even realized it, then Keep On Wearing It.
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Blessed Be...
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Hurn.
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