Helping others become even better versions of themselves
‘The lighthouse does not wander the world looking for ships to save, it just shines its light for ships’.
That is a quote I read today or something like that. The thing is there is so much of this ‘help others’ and ‘have a purpose’ and so on. Perhaps, if we just focused on our light, being the example, then we can be a light for others. Otherwise, how can we help if we have no light ourselves?
In order to find our inner peace, we need to step away from the mind. We need to simply observe our thoughts, do not energise them by responding. The mind is like a magnet, it draws us into a vortex of unnecessary and often destructive thoughts.
The mind, however, has many strategies to deny us peace.
The majority of them are so normal, constantly there, like a static white noise in the background, that we are not even aware of them. The pattern just keeps repeating and we wonder why we stay stuck.
It is like a broken record that plays over and over with the same themes. It will tell us we are not good enough, a failure, not popular, not worthy, a bad this and a bad that and so on. The noise is there all the time and it is only when we become conscious that we can see them and hear them.
Our consciousness is a light and we can shine that light on the darkness of our thoughts that hide in the recesses of our mind.
If you can’t see it, you can’t change it.
Philip Dodson 