Love the intrinsic insanity in real things. Without a modest amount of insanity, it's going to lack depth. Without depth, you are going to skim the outer surface of what's essentially capable for you. Without finding your best stuff and what creates your foundation, expansion and happiness will appear like a distant dream. You see, there's a tendency to become seduced with the quick and easy, but that isn't where the magic is. The magic lies deep within the depths. The magic takes some soul spelunking. The magic...is in jumping out of the canoe completely and diving deep down into unexplored waters all while having shatterproof faith that you will find a patch of air on the way down.
Fear? Embrace it.
When you really consider it, we live in a world completely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently collapsing and colliding together. It is actually a miracle that we are even able to completely function with everything occuring around us. Some find their way early and others spend their entire lives searching for some type of deep meaning that will give them direction. We hunt down steerage, education and consume massive amounts of material to help us try to sound right out of all this. What is the journey I am on? Who am I while traveling on it? This uncertainty can seduce us into making an attempt to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality in order to help us understand ourselves. Do not get me wrong, I am all about life quotes and the small morsels of bite-sized knowledge they can expose to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for disaster. Surface level foundations never work...try building a house on wallpaper.
And that's really what all of this surface level stuff is when it truly comes down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to look all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is grimy. Life is often vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees whenever it feels like it. No matter how much you try avoiding particular things taking place, life acts as a professional dart thrower, hitting it's target every single time - no matter how fast it's moving.
But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they are not wallpaper at all. They always have some madness to them. They are hard to predict, uncertain and almost always totally unexpected. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you're down. It's a bit chaotic, but that is the point. The chaos is the pretty part. The chaos is the art. When you begin to live in that place, your whole life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you start to accept that you have a role to play in this world, you can begin to develop the steered hand of the painter.
But you have to get dirty first.
Roll around in the filth. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have created across the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that's absolutely going to be the location where you build your life. It's time to build it over again and do the work you've always been frightened to do.
What is life without risk? Just surviving.
Fear? Embrace it.
When you really consider it, we live in a world completely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently collapsing and colliding together. It is actually a miracle that we are even able to completely function with everything occuring around us. Some find their way early and others spend their entire lives searching for some type of deep meaning that will give them direction. We hunt down steerage, education and consume massive amounts of material to help us try to sound right out of all this. What is the journey I am on? Who am I while traveling on it? This uncertainty can seduce us into making an attempt to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality in order to help us understand ourselves. Do not get me wrong, I am all about life quotes and the small morsels of bite-sized knowledge they can expose to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for disaster. Surface level foundations never work...try building a house on wallpaper.
And that's really what all of this surface level stuff is when it truly comes down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to look all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is grimy. Life is often vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees whenever it feels like it. No matter how much you try avoiding particular things taking place, life acts as a professional dart thrower, hitting it's target every single time - no matter how fast it's moving.
But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they are not wallpaper at all. They always have some madness to them. They are hard to predict, uncertain and almost always totally unexpected. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you're down. It's a bit chaotic, but that is the point. The chaos is the pretty part. The chaos is the art. When you begin to live in that place, your whole life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you start to accept that you have a role to play in this world, you can begin to develop the steered hand of the painter.
But you have to get dirty first.
Roll around in the filth. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have created across the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that's absolutely going to be the location where you build your life. It's time to build it over again and do the work you've always been frightened to do.
What is life without risk? Just surviving.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author and creator of The Words Of Encouragement a website devoted to bringing audiences encouraging blogs, life changing quotes, videos and other content to help people follow their passions and purposes.
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