Being with yourself in contemplation is essential for sustainable growth
Sometimes, and especially on the first day of yet another with curious thinking mind-blessed year ahead, it is beyond worthwhile asking yourself and your instinct, intellect, the heart:
Why was a waterlily created to float on the still pond contained in one spot?
Perhaps, consult Monet and Joan Mitchell (together at the Paris Louis Vuitton Foundation until end of February 2023) through their visual renderings of these beautifully arresting nymphaea.
Why do we humans build bridges across split depths sunken deep in daunting darkness?
Observing the moon reflecting the sun at night might shine some wisdom on that.
Why some instead dive deep fearless becoming adventurers, uncensored artists or heroes?
Why does the mind in stillness expand instead of shrink into an animal primitiveness?
Would a fully focused being do more on a single path than an unstoppable mover and shaker of everything that comes across their highway of hyperactivity?
I can only ask because I think and perceive, I can just be and not necessarily a man or woman, but a rock, a worm, a sunflower or a clock. Yet what is intellect for when assumptions and judgement can deceive?
Truth shall be discerned, yet truth is fluid, relative to the genius, space and time in which it was conceived.
Still, time’s knot burns through life’s fire unconcerned if one is ignorant, self-absorbed instead of open to breathe in all as it comes, more oxygen, wind blowing, storms, floods, quakes, eventually peace.
More, one can only hope to be well received amongst the kin, a gamble, luck, or we call it aptitude.
All swelling like tides high and low, joy is not outside of us but in daily expression of gratitude.
Affinity, reality check, blurred boundaries of truth are being infinitely (perhaps?) shared between our naïveté and the spirit of the times.
Yet, the imaginative minds’ games can fool even the rationalising one of our many kinds. So who has the key to truth?
Being with yourself in contemplation is essential for sustainable growth.
What life is for beyond procreation, success, renown, indulgence and pain?
IN MEANING-ABUNDANT QUESTIONS we find solutions to satisfactory life. I ask them on each first day of any commencing calendar year. Resolve is not enough for a profound shift you desire deep inside. One needs connection with purpose. Whether it is unique to each of us or universal does not matter, what is important is that you have an honest conversation with yourself regularly to stay on the right track for you.
Therefore, ask today and keep asking until you find your own answers.
So much individual and collective conditioning hinders the attainment of your goals. Liberate yourself to go and fly unbound!
Contemplation is a human need, not just a religious invention.