When I see, the outside world is my idea of the outside world. My idea. And you have yours.
“You can’t handle the Truth!”, says a character of an old movie.
Is that why not questioning too much can be the recipe for a normal, happily standard Life?
One of the most difficult things in being I would say is accepting the very little conscious of what we know. We don’t know that much do we? Where do we come from, where do we go after, why are we here, where/how did it all start?
And that's where Faith, Hope, can play an important part in our Life or not at all.
How can we have Faith that there’s real forgiveness, that there’s real Heaven, that there’s real OK, if most days we go through all Life’s wheel colours, from happy orange to sad grey.
We are always, always! measuring, comparing, fitting the pieces and trying to make sense, and we say that’s being open and free! we’re free when we can hold all the knowledge about something and choose! Really?
… we’re free when we are not afraid, when we’re in no rush or get stuck in self-exteriorized concepts.
We’re free when we give up trying to give things, actions, experiences, more meaning than what they have.
We are free when we stop asking Life for meaning and instead hear Life asking us what meaning do we want to give Life.
In sadness we might say:
“I have nothing to expect from life any more.”
Where’s an answer for that?
Viktor Frankl, the same person who wrote “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” also writes:
“What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
(…) We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life — daily and hourly.”
Life as expectations towards us, and we will be lead into them. We can choose to follow them or give up, be angry, but we will only be wasting time…
So pay attention towards what you focus your mind on. That's who you'll become.
