Children often know more than what they can express, and more than what we can see.
Often, presence is more powerful and spectacular than the arrival.
We have a lot to learn about life from Nature. Nature has such a beautiful system in place for survival, connection and transformation. Nothing ever dies. Nothing goes wasted. No loss is mourned. Everything serves its purpose fully. Everything has a value. Everything is a gift, exactly the way it is. Some are obvious, and some are not. Some may never be known by us.
Some creatures spawn so many eggs. Some fruits have so many tiny seeds. Not all of them become what they want to, or grow into what they could be. Some go back to the earth where they came from, without having opened their gifts. Their gifts will perhaps be opened at another time and place. Or maybe their gift to themselves and us, was to live out this lifetime, unfulfilled. A sacrifice of sorts so that their kin survive and seek fruition of their purpose.
Why then do we humans mourn our unfulfilled desires and gifts that we want to share so much with the world but cannot? Why do we want to change what is? Is this struggle our true purpose? Or is it to live and offer our own gifts, as much as life opens them out to us? Or is it to constantly feel a sense of dissatisfaction that drives us on our path to understanding ourselves?
Can we see ourselves as those tiny eggs or seeds? Can we rest into our own lives with a peace and ease that comes with trusting life and its ways? Can we feel and understand our purpose in being a seed that does not grow into a tree this time around? Can we drown in that feeling of helplessness and frustration without hoping to sink or rise?
If we do, then maybe, just maybe, we will find and celebrate our true gifts to this world in this lifetime!...and rest into life, just like everything else in nature.
Pessimism is often seen as a negative attitude towards life....to be shunned or wished away....people who are pessimistic are often seen as 'cogs in the wheel' - as unimportant or hindrances to the flow of things or processes ...
However, the same 'cog', could actually be the tooth of a gear, a part of a larger system at work, that 'engages' other teeth, and receives and transmits movement....it could be the catalyst to that much-needed pregnant pause, which holds something precious, waiting to be birthed...
The key I feel lies in how the person who is labelled pessimistic, views his/her own pessimism, and how the others he/she interacts with view that.
When I embrace my pessimism, I embrace who I am, and the truth that 'I' actually cannot transcend my own nature... and so I 'surrender' to the larger force of nature or life to 'prepare' me to take that leap......I then see the larger picture that you are not seeing...I see the silences that create music....I see the empty white spaces that have been filled with colour to make a pretty painting....
I actually see myself as a 'cog in the wheel of nature' and the importance of being that 'cog'.....and that alchemy births the seed of optimism.
Beauty and truth lie in the tension that holds the paradox.
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Often, presence is more powerful and spectacular than the arrival.
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We have a lot to learn about life from Nature. Nature has such a beautiful system in place for survival, connection and transformation. Nothing ever dies. Nothing goes wasted. No loss is mourned. Everything serves its purpose fully. Everything has a value. Everything is a gift, exactly the way it is. Some are obvious, and some are not. Some may never be known by us.
Some creatures spawn so many eggs. Some fruits have so many tiny seeds. Not all of them become what they want to, or grow into what they could be. Some go back to the earth where they came from, without having opened their gifts. Their gifts will perhaps be opened at another time and place. Or maybe their gift to themselves and us, was to live out this lifetime, unfulfilled. A sacrifice of sorts so that their kin survive and seek fruition of their purpose.
Why then do we humans mourn our unfulfilled desires and gifts that we want to share so much with the world but cannot? Why do we want to change what is? Is this struggle our true purpose? Or is it to live and offer our own gifts, as much as life opens them out to us? Or is it to constantly feel a sense of dissatisfaction that drives us on our path to understanding ourselves?
Can we see ourselves as those tiny eggs or seeds? Can we rest into our own lives with a peace and ease that comes with trusting life and its ways? Can we feel and understand our purpose in being a seed that does not grow into a tree this time around? Can we drown in that feeling of helplessness and frustration without hoping to sink or rise?
If we do, then maybe, just maybe, we will find and celebrate our true gifts to this world in this lifetime!...and rest into life, just like everything else in nature.
**************
Pessimism is often seen as a negative attitude towards life....to be shunned or wished away....people who are pessimistic are often seen as 'cogs in the wheel' - as unimportant or hindrances to the flow of things or processes ...
However, the same 'cog', could actually be the tooth of a gear, a part of a larger system at work, that 'engages' other teeth, and receives and transmits movement....it could be the catalyst to that much-needed pregnant pause, which holds something precious, waiting to be birthed...
The key I feel lies in how the person who is labelled pessimistic, views his/her own pessimism, and how the others he/she interacts with view that.
When I embrace my pessimism, I embrace who I am, and the truth that 'I' actually cannot transcend my own nature... and so I 'surrender' to the larger force of nature or life to 'prepare' me to take that leap......I then see the larger picture that you are not seeing...I see the silences that create music....I see the empty white spaces that have been filled with colour to make a pretty painting....
I actually see myself as a 'cog in the wheel of nature' and the importance of being that 'cog'.....and that alchemy births the seed of optimism.
Beauty and truth lie in the tension that holds the paradox.
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