Posts tagged Darkness
Life Lives in Questions, Death Lives in Answers, Life in A New Consciousness
Sep 29th
The whole world wants to have answers. We get rewarded for having the answer. We get to be right, be smart, or feel important. And there we stay or accumulate more answers.
This is a knowledge filled world, so it demands answers. The value is in the answer. You get money or you get prestige. Of course, most new inventions require an openness to see possibilities, but inventions are built on previous knowledge. I am speaking here of the psychology of our minds, and what happens in the mind that is looking only for answers.
In the psychological, questions create openness, not money, and it is only an open mind that can experience life wholly and completely. We do not realize that death lives in answers, and that life lives in questions. You die in the answer because there are no more questions. Questions create a space to discover something new. ?
The answer is always in the question, and the next question is always in the answer. Actually we do not have a true answer unless there is another question included in an answer. To find the new question in the answer, is to have a complete life experience-the experience of life and death in one movement. To have an answer without seeing the ensuing question is to live in darkness, just in the death part of life. ?If you can question your answer to anything, not making the answer right or wrong, but taking the answer and find the new question in it, life will be continually new.
For example, if you are feeling down, and you say, “I’m depressed,” that is the first step in healing your depression.
You have spoken the truth of it. Then out of that truth spoken, you need to discover the question which might be “what is causing my depression?”? From the ensuing answer you will find the next question. If at any time, you come up with an answer without an ensuing question, you are likely to slip back into depression, back into the death of answers.
Generally, people find it difficult to live in this manner, for it is against all that we have learned and been taught. Krishnamurti talked about living in the unknown, and more recently, Eckhart Tolle spoke about the new, but you cannot have the unknown or the new without the death of the old. It is impossible. Two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time. One dies; then the other is born. Death and birth are the cycle of life.
You can experience the new when you are able to find the question in the statements you make on a day to day basis. It is not difficult, but it does require actually doing it as you walk along in your life. ?This manner of living will take you away from the trap of worry, stress, and all the other problems we humans have brought upon ourselves. You will no longer seek answers from outside yourself. ?They are there for you-there to be discovered inside the question/ answer/question/answer.
The age-old advice of know thyself or look within is the action of asking questions of yourself. And the place you find to question yourself is in your own answers, otherwise known as your beliefs.
Is it possible that when you know nothing, you know everything?
Discover with a new consciousness.
What’s For Breakfast?
Sep 2nd
“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” -Eileen Caddy
When you wake up in the morning what is on your mind? What is on your emotional plate? What are some of the first thoughts and words you use to feed yourself in order to get through the day? Do you have a healthy mental breakfast or don’t you even take the time to sit down and eat?
How you spend your time in the morning will have a lot to do with how your day goes. If you take the time to nourish your mental well being you will not only start out on the right note, you will have more balance in your life.
Some people are so used to doing nothing, they simply run around through their morning routine and aren’t aware they even have a mind!
But, if you wake up just 5 minutes early and take time to give thanks for another day, pray to live it well no matter what you find and focus on what you do have that you are grateful for; that 5 minutes will not only help put you on a healthier mental path but there’s no other way to start each day.
If you can take even more quiet time to pray and meditate try and get in the habit of doing so because if you think physical exercise is good for your health, doing this one mental exercise each day puts you in touch with the spirit of life that sustains us.
We are sometimes so wrapped up in the outer physical world that we forget there is a whole other world within us that when tapped into can bring you peace, strength, freedom from worry and fear and the perspective that all is well.
This kind of soulful nourishment will help you live each day knowing that no matter what happens you are just fine. You always have a peaceful place within you and a light that can erase any darkness.
Don’t allow yourself to get so caught up with all of your issues and all of the garbage that’s on your plate that you forget about all that is right in your life.
Learning to start each day from within will be the best thing you can do for yourself. Eating a healthy mental breakfast is the only way to start each day because without it you simply won’t be on your “A” game.
Being grateful and being thankful for every little thing you have may sound trite but it will make the biggest impact on how you live. It is all about your perspective and how you choose to view your life.
Make living with an attitude of gratitude apart of your day and you will live it well!
Below is my mom’s favorite prayer that I say each morning:
Lord/Allah/Higher Power thank you for another day within this life of mine. Help me to live it well no matter what I find.
Bestow from you abundance whatever I may lack, help me use the hours wisely for I cannot give them back.
Lord/Allah/Higher thank you for another day in which to make amends for the little slights and petty words inflicted on my friends.
For sometimes losing patience with people that I find, in finding faults in others lives but not the ones in mine.
Lord/Allah/Higher Power thank you for another chance in which to try to be a little more deserving of the gifts you’ve given me.
For yesterday is over, tomorrow is far away and I remain committed to the good I do today!
