Tag: knowing

Risk is being ourselves

Posted on by philipdodson

The biggest challenge we all face is letting go so that we do the things we really want to do.

We are tricked by our mind and its sabotage that it is easier to walk away from truly letting go and to stay in the safety of where we are.

The challenge is that this only causes us more turmoil and longer-term it becomes harder and harder.

We resist the things we fear the most, as the mind creates the fear and the further it is from what it sees as safety the more psychological fear it will create. We do not fear what we do not want or desire, we do not fear something that we are not interested in doing, or experiencing.

Yet this is the guide, fear is the guide, because safety is suffering and the mind and risk is living, is experiencing, is joy, is jumping off the diving board, and being truly ourselves.

There isn’t an answer

Posted on by philipdodson
By Philip Dodson

The less we know, the happier and more peaceful we can be.

The human mind is obsessed with having to know, needing an answer, a definitive…yet knowing doesn’t always bring peace or joy and the pain of not knowing causes suffering too. The more we seek certainty through answers, the more suffering we cause ourselves as the beauty of life is the uncertainty of this moment and what we can choose to do or not. If everything was certain, then there is no life.

Better to accept that there does not have to be answer, we do not need to know. Be happy and grateful for all that is and do not waste moments or a life wondering what the answer is…accept that for many things, there isn’t answer.