Too hard to starboard, too hard to port;
certain destruction.
What if I awakened one day and realized that "I" have no meaning.
In fact, the only meaning in anything.... is the meaning that I and/or others create and agree upon. There is no inherent meaning -
only applied meaning.
And I mean truly real-ized it. Not just a concept - made real.
Integrated on a cellular level.
What if I really got it, that what drives me, when closely examined,
is ultimately ego-related, ego-serving. What would I use for motivation
without "ego" fulfillment, our most powerful generator of illusion,
meaning and purpose.
What would replace it? What would I discover?
When meaning, purpose, ego, legacy, immortality, are stripped away -
the hidden is revealed.
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
If you've already leapt into the unexplored void,
you did so knowing that there's no turning back.
If you haven't chosen to leap yet - Don't.
If you have the capacity to avoid that leap - avoid it...
Run away... Run away...
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Sounds a lot like Jed McKenna's "Spiritual Enlightenment -- The Damnedest Thing." You might enjoy this book. If you read it, please explain to me what all the vampire stuff is all about... it seemed superfluous to me.
I'll tell ya what -- I'm so grateful I'm managing (at least for now) to avoid this kind stuff, at least the more extreme manifestations of it. A little peace of mind every now and then isn't all that bad, all things considered. Though it earns one no status points with the spiritual elite.
I find it fascinating that, when we can now definitively say that out-of-control consumerism has passed the point of no return in terms of destroying the planet, there is unprecedented interest in enlightenment and spiritual topics in general. A fascinating correlation. Maybe it's our final lesson on the way out...
huh, just huh. If I create my own meaning then it strikes me that there are fun, peaceful, satisfying creative choices I have as options. I personally can look back and see clearly that anything associated with my ego has never been fun, peaceful or satisfying for long or for deep or for real. So that's it as far as I have gone, fun, peace, satisfaction...expressing as fun, peace, satisfaction. Yeah, no meaning there. It is that which leaps that takes the leap, nothing not leap can or would. Maybe that's why the bridge was built--for fuel to light the way once on the other side.
I really enjoyed searching for meaning in your post! Thanks
Laura
I chuckled when I read Gordon's request for you to explain the "vampire stuff".
And I think there was something to be said for Laura commenting on her "searching for meaning" in your post.
When I read your post, I found it to be poetic, but very scary. It seemed like it was written by someone on the verge of a complete meltdown. I hope that person is not you and if it is I reccomend you quickly stop thinking so hard about reality if you wish to keep structurally intact. ;)
All in all, I think ego is always painted as a negative concept. But, why? If we let go of all ego and desire for self-fulfillment, we become nothing but energy floating, which somewhat negates our human form.
Personally I think you think too hard.
Go read harry potter...or!...!..If you want to read something new, read Twilight! It's fun!
Love you very much. Read deeply into my advice to lighten up...then read lightly into anything that seems deep
Mick
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