Go Where our being meets life
“Be a student of that vibrant edge where our inner life meets the world… where we all live on the shore between the depths of being and the dangers of experience.” Mark Nepo
The world is getting more chaotic everyday. At times, life does not make sense to us. Our minds are not able to process what is going on, and the reasons behind the happenings in life.
Education, media, and the governments are telling us one thing, that everything is alright, we just need to follow the path of life, and we will lead a “good life”, they keep saying”peace, peace, where there is no peace.” Their consideration of the “good life” is based on the myth of progress, where science and growth will make everyone better; based on the myth of consumerism, where you can buy and consume happiness with material things.
The myth of progress only benefited those in power, it may help the standard of living, but it is certainly draining people’s inner life as we are expected to strive to oil the machine to run day and night.
No matter what material things we buy, the satisfaction and happiness lasted only for seconds, till the next new thing comes along, with we get deeper and deeper into debt, buying things that we do not need.
We have become enslaved to our debts, to our mortgages, to our credit card bills, which bounded us to our job having to live off paycheck to paycheck, and castrated our ability to dream and actually live a life that we wanted.
Our inner being becomes dry and hollow as we know deep down that this is not our purpose in life, not the reason why we are put here on earth. There seem to be no other way around it.
What our minds tell us and the distance to our utmost true desire have a great gulf in between. How do we make sense of this hole, this emptiness inside of us?
We don’t. We can’t make sense of it. And the first step to closing this gap is to learn that we can’t understand and make sense of everything in life. Life is a mystery.
It is only then, when we feel the pain and suffering of the soul, that we are on the edge of our inner being, we are on the edge of the deep abssy. Take a close, hard look at this gap. Take a deep breath and ask yourself what is your deepest desire in the depth of the clutters. What is the most important thing you wish in life? What is blocking you from that?
Move forward and live dangerously. Living dangerously in the sense of not to living under the status quo and the norm, but to take courage and walk a path where very few have walked.
Take a deep breath… and appreciate all that you have and give thanks.
Take a deep breath… and love the people around you.
Take a deep breath…. and live.
© JOSEPH WONG - THE WAY WE ART