Traffic Jam

Congested roads of travel,

A vehicle tries to get to it's destination

Some on the road in aggravated impatience

Others, preparing their appearance along the way of the stop and go, break now, slow, go, stop

Others patiently relaxed at arriving to their destination, for some, that destination is already There where they are.

Others in fear and anxiety, others elated, and the list goes on...

What happens with us in our internal traffic jams? How do we go about it? How do we embrace it? How are we in that moment? Do we let the noise congeal that much? or are we able to quiet ourselves down, focus, have peace of mind no matter what jams and binds we may be seemingly in the middle of.

Within my attempt at silence, some days the silence is profound... other days the noise gathers in swarms to the point of breaking the mind and heart ...

Now that I am writing this, I am in wonder how this may relate to Philo Judaeus, as I recalled, in seeming synchronicity, reading about these very two organs;

The Sacrifices of Cain and Abel, XL,

136. And he brings not only the first fruits from the firstborn, but also from the fat; showing by this that whatever there is in the soul that is cheerful, or fat, or preservative and pleasant, might all be surrendered to God. And I see also in the arrangements established about sacrifices, that three things are enjoined to be offered from the victims; in the first place the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver, about which e will speak separately; bot not the brain or the heart which it seemed natural should be dedicated before the other parts, since according to the language of the lawgiver (Moses), the dominant power is recognized as existing in one of them.

137. But may it not be owing to an exceeding holiness and to very accurate consideration of the matter that he did not bear these things to the faithful altar of God? because that dominant part being subject to changes in either direction, either for bad or good, in an indivisible moment of time receives impressions which are continually changing, at one time impressions of that is pure and approved, and at others of an adulterated and base coinage.

138. Therefore the lawgiver judging a place which was capable of receiving both these opposite qualities, namely, what is honorable, and what is disgraceful, and which was adapted to each, and distributed equal honor to both, to be quite as much impure as holy, removed it from the altar of God. For what is disgraceful is profane, and what is profane is by all means unholy;

139. and this is why the dominant part is kept away from the sacrifices, but if it is subjected to examination, then, when all its parts have been purified, it will be consecrated as a burnt offering, free from all stain, and from all pollution. For this is the law respecting whole burnt offerings, that with the exception of the refuse of the food, and of the skin which are tokens of the weakness of the body and not of wickedness, nothing else should be left to the creature, but that all the other parts which exhibit the soul perfect in all its parts, should be presented as a whole burnt offering to God.

On The Unchangeableness Of God, I,

4. For the appropriate progeny of God are the perfect virtues, but that ofspring which is akin to the wicked, is unregulated wickedness. But learn thou, if thou wilt, O my mind... after the example of Abraham, who offered up to God "The beloved and only legitimate offspring of his soul", the most conspicuous image of self-taught wisdom, by name Isaac; and who gave him up with all cheerfulness to be a necessary and fitting offering to god. "Having bound", as the scripture says, this new kind of victim, either because he, having once tasted of the divine inspiration, did not condescend any longer to tread on any mortal truth, or because he saw that the creature was unstable and movable, while he recognized the unhesitating firmness existing in the Living God, on whom he is said to have believed."

All I know, and in truth, I know nothing, is that things are all based on perception, the way we wish to interpret things. If we wish to interpret things within ourselves for good, they will be for a good, as we continue to walk in that direction... In other words, "I chose to repair the world (Tiqun `Olam) by repairing myself" ... Im wondering how this connects with Philo, or if it does at all? Hmm

Any suggestions and or insights on what you may see here? For me? For yourself? In General, as applied to all?