Tag: reality

IT’S AS IT IS

Posted on by philipdodson

What seems to be permanent, isn’t.

Apart from this eternal present moment now, all things, events, people, whatever, are temporary. Nothing lasts. It might be there for just a second, a few minutes, a week, a year, several years but it will go.

When we are in a good place, it changes, and when we are in a bad space, it goes. Everything has to have the opposite in order for it to exist.

There always has to be balance in the universe and we can observe this every day in nature and the environment. So is the same for all human life and activity.

Everything passes and that’s why nothing really matters except to be present in this moment and be conscious and aware.

The Yin and Yang of life will always be and that’s why it’s best to just be and accept all that is as it is.

We are all living a ‘walter mitty’

Posted on by philipdodson

We all live a version of a ‘Walter Mitty’ story in our heads, we create these fantasy versions of ourselves, that we act out in our heads, and in many way, in our actions and behaviours in the exterior world.

The challenge is though, that this ‘better’ or more exciting life/story that we create never really materialises and this leads to disappointment. We are dissatisfied, so we create a ‘better’ life, that never happens and then there is only further suffering, always seeking better rather than allowing the amazing human soul that we all are shine bright.

We expect that our ‘Walter Mitty’ life will become real, but it never does, and that leads to a feeling of lack and discontent. It becomes a spiral with no escape from these created personas.

If only we realised that if we let go of all the stories, the fantasies, the roles, the ‘Walter Mitty’ and actually let our true essence shine that we all have the most amazing life and journey to have.

When we are free from the burden of the stories, then we can be at peace within and then we can truly enjoy life now as our true self.