Fred Steeves
23rd August 2013, 11:28
You know how sometimes the pressures and monotony of daily life start to wear on you a bit? How it can seem the more we struggle for something, the farther away it gets? Or maybe we go through a stretch where every time we roll the dice they come up snake eyes...
Well I think that might even be *especially* true, an added pressure, to people who have embarked on the study of the true nature of reality as we all do here. It's a journey that once begun can not be simply aborted like other things we do, we're in it for the long haul and there's no turning back, no matter what.
And my god, the horrible things we expose ourselves to regularly because we have to see it all, the good, the bad and the ugly. You know what I'm talking about. The vast majority of people just don't want to go there, or even acknowledge it exists. Yet it's like suddenly seeing that elephant in the room...Once seen it can't be unseen, so it may as well be figured out.
This is where we add that extra burden to an already heavy load everyone carries anyway, but carry it we must because we care enough to care. It's the labor of love, and it can be a real bitch sometimes.
Whether we can see it or not we are always making progress, even during those times when it feels like we're only sinking more in the quicksand the more we try. It can be disheartening to say the least, and I feel this forum as a whole is sort of feeling it now.
When this happens (and it happens to us all), I find it best to try and take the long view. Step back from things for a bit, and take a look at the totality of your body of work thus far in this life (and quite possibly a lot longer than that). Where have you come from, where are you now, and what is the general trajectory of where you are heading?
In that light things tend to come back into focus, and when the time is right it's then easier to resume "The Long Walk". There *is* a purpose to everything, and even the bad times wind up being an important piece of the great puzzle. We're not going to get "there" all in one fell swoop, that's just not the way it works. So it's like the old adage: "How do you eat the elephant?" Answer: One bite at a time.
Every last one of us is making a difference, often in ways that we'll never even realize until this chapter in The Grand Show comes to a close...
I happened across the old song "The Rose" last night, and the last lines of it struck me as very relevant to this time:
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose.
Zf5UfOuvQHQ
Well I think that might even be *especially* true, an added pressure, to people who have embarked on the study of the true nature of reality as we all do here. It's a journey that once begun can not be simply aborted like other things we do, we're in it for the long haul and there's no turning back, no matter what.
And my god, the horrible things we expose ourselves to regularly because we have to see it all, the good, the bad and the ugly. You know what I'm talking about. The vast majority of people just don't want to go there, or even acknowledge it exists. Yet it's like suddenly seeing that elephant in the room...Once seen it can't be unseen, so it may as well be figured out.
This is where we add that extra burden to an already heavy load everyone carries anyway, but carry it we must because we care enough to care. It's the labor of love, and it can be a real bitch sometimes.
Whether we can see it or not we are always making progress, even during those times when it feels like we're only sinking more in the quicksand the more we try. It can be disheartening to say the least, and I feel this forum as a whole is sort of feeling it now.
When this happens (and it happens to us all), I find it best to try and take the long view. Step back from things for a bit, and take a look at the totality of your body of work thus far in this life (and quite possibly a lot longer than that). Where have you come from, where are you now, and what is the general trajectory of where you are heading?
In that light things tend to come back into focus, and when the time is right it's then easier to resume "The Long Walk". There *is* a purpose to everything, and even the bad times wind up being an important piece of the great puzzle. We're not going to get "there" all in one fell swoop, that's just not the way it works. So it's like the old adage: "How do you eat the elephant?" Answer: One bite at a time.
Every last one of us is making a difference, often in ways that we'll never even realize until this chapter in The Grand Show comes to a close...
I happened across the old song "The Rose" last night, and the last lines of it struck me as very relevant to this time:
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose.
Zf5UfOuvQHQ