It’s been roughly three years since the launch of this blog and if I had to sum up everything I’ve learned over that stretch of time it would boil down to something like this:
1. Let go
Suffering cannot be healed so long as we work so hard to protect the source of that suffering. If you chafe at criticism, consider for a moment what it is you’re clinging to.
2. Stop bullshitting yourself
Early in life you were given – and since then have been reinforcing – a story of ‘you.’
Which means it’s not YOUR story.
Which means it’s not YOU.
So what exactly are you going on about all the time?
3. Go stag
Each of us is haunted by our sense of separation – we aren’t afraid of dying, we’re afraid of going alone. But can anyone ever find that wholeness by emulating, worshipping, or otherwise clinging to the words, thoughts, or deeds of another?
4. Turn within
For thousands of years millions upon millions of us have tried every imaginable form of spiritual outlet and ignored the one door that is uniquely our own. To ‘know thyself’ is the central ingredient and, really, the only path authentically available to us.
Click here for a humorous poke at how most of us humans tackle ‘spirituality.’
Go stag :
”As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
These words were written by a much quoted man.
I feel that the Eastern teachings of losing ego and realising that all boundaries are common to all things i.e. ‘oneness’, merely evades the problem by surrendering to the ‘enemy’ thus there is no more conflict. A useful tool but doesn’t answer why we feel estranged in the first place and in need of therapy. If, this world is so alien and absurd, why would you want to amalgamate with it ?
Reading an assortment of quotes dotted here and there around the house, may help me follow D.F.Wallace’s advice for constant awareness and that isolation is a natural state in this ‘earthly’ existance. C.J.Jung penned the opening quote and here is another of his.
” Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integation of the contraries ”