“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi
“This always happens to me. I have everything going my way and then bam… the universe laughs at me and my life falls apart”
“I can’t win for losing”
“Life’s a bitch”
No, No, No, No. NO NO NO!!!!!!
Are these the stories we want to tell ourselves? Really? We can do better than that?
“My life keeps getting better all the time”
“No matter how bad things feel, I know I have these things that make me happy”
“I feel grateful for being alive in a world with those flowers or eyes and a smile like that girl / man had.”
Do the above sound overly syrupy or sentimental to you? I can see how but seriously no matter how bad things have gotten for me, pretty consistently the difference between happiness and anger and despair has come down to a choice.
Try it, if you feel like things have been rough for you lately, ask yourself these questions at the end of each day. What was the most beautiful thing I saw today? What made me laugh? If nothing else what am I thankful for? What is the highest outcome I could hope for tomorrow? Keep asking yourself those questions and watch your life start to change.
blessings, G
“The Universe is non-simultaneously apprehended — R Buckminster Fuller
In other words, the universe is too big to understand and grasp fully by one person. At most we understand a part and try to fill in the rest, somewhat akin to the old story of the seven blind men and the elephant.
In this way, incarnate in bodies, with physical senses and reasoning, the most we can understand is partial truth.
As many people have told me, the best most pernicious way to lie is to mix falsehood in with truth.
Therefore, whenever someone seeks to tell you about the nature of reality, they are but telling you their lie (or fiction if you will). Unfortunately history shows many cases where people who have found their way into power, either temporal or spiritual have sought to impose their myth on other’s usually using rather violent means.
This does not mean that you cannot gain insight from hearing other people’s reality views. In my life I have often learned more about existence from fictional characters I have met in books and movies than I have from many of the people whom I’ve met in life. There are still characters in books whom I hold 2 AM conversations with. Hey this is my fiction and for me it works (LOL)
Perhaps there exists a necessity to find people who’s reality coincides closely enough with our own as to enable communication but different enough that we feel jarred out of our complacency, free of the notion that ours is the only correct way.
Emotive by G A Rosenberg