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My good friend and noteworthy artist and poet, Paul Bond, posted this on Fb: “Aldous Huxley, the famend Twentieth-century mental who wrote ‘Courageous New World’, got here to remorse just one factor in life: how ‘preposterously severe’ he had been when he was youthful.
“There are fast sands all about you, sucking at your ft, making an attempt to suck you down into worry and self-pity and despair. That’s why you will need to stroll so calmly. Calmly, my darling… Study to do all the pieces calmly. Sure, really feel calmly regardless that you’re feeling deeply.”
Yeah, go away it to Huxley to fairly constantly blow my thoughts. He pulls aside two usually related states: feeling gentle = feeling comfortable or frivolous; feeling deeply = feeling heavy. In actual fact, we even have the hippy vernacular, “That’s heavy, man” in reacting to a spiritually deep, existential idea. And we pull again in order to not be sucked into the fast sands of our personal life’s final which means.
Huxley is suggesting to as a substitute really feel deeply the existential reality within the expertise of life, with none must heap a great deal of significance on it, or make it extra essential than the rest on this world.
For those who’ve executed any “manifesting” examine, you understand that often the lightest of requests submitted to the Universe creates the quickest outcomes. The Universe’s responses, our physique’s wants, the consciousness of non-corporeal beings, God, even the ideas of others, come into our consciousness as whispers. We get used to a sure amplitude of cacophony in our fashionable society that appears to “drown out” these whispers and makes life appear “heavy” and remoted. We really feel we have to work laborious, slave away, maintain our noses to the grindstone and solely settle for these clearly bodily issues as legitimate to our perceptions. The remainder of the whispers lose their relevance.
Keep in mind the butterfly flapping its wings inflicting an earthquake on the opposite facet of the world? It’s the leveling of the enjoying discipline between excessive amplitude and 0 state–all is similar which means, all is solely an impact. All the things is essential, and but nothing is, as a result of it’s all one system–one infinite connection of all the pieces.
Maybe it’s a behavior to solely take note of massive, loud, explosive experiences that rattle our senses and create flight or flight responses, when some of these experiences are the exception, not the rule. By protecting our filters turned as much as defend ourselves from the intermittent drama-trauma of life, why not re-tune?
Take down the filters. Enable all of it, really feel all of it, however skip calmly round and thru it with out caring or needing to someway “do” one thing about it. The “doing” will not be what’s essential. What’s essential is who you’re being, as a result of the Universe is responding solely to how you’re being, somehow. Why not lighten your life by being gentle? Be engaged with the huge and mysterious depths of life and but benefit from the “insufferable lightness of being”?
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