In my younger years, I did not much care to have a big vocabulary. I felt I could express myself with the words I knew, so why bother with additional words? I have done a total reversal in that regard. A single word can capture the essence of a thought poignantly, while in a paragraph, the essence can slip through the fingers. Particularly in today’s world of the 30-second soundbite, few take the time to dissect a paragraph to find the underlying truth.

“Specious” is one such word. It means plausible, but false. “Specious” conveys a concept seemingly so simple, yet so incredibly profound:

The one thing that is, Consciousness (Oneness), speciously viewed itself as other and the universe manifested.

Based upon conditioning, an individual speciously views the world as they do, and considers it to be “Truth.”

Perspectives are specious, all except inside the Gates of Eden, the Transcendent.

Like most arguments, the law too often pits one specious perspective against another. 

Psychotherapy, in a nutshell, can be ideally viewed as the exploration of, and consequential liberation from, one’s specious thoughts and feelings. 

Speciousness makes the world go ‘round.

Enlightenment means seeing beyond the specious—in the world, but not of it. “The only true knowing is knowing that you know nothing”… No thing—beyond the specious world of perspective. Wisdom means not being lost to perspective.

There are so many great words. The roots of language reach deep.

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