Have you ever noticed the certainty inherent within an acorn? Its path and destiny are set within a blueprint of divine inevitability as an oak tree.
Why is it that nature is so certain in its understanding of what it is to become?
Perhaps it knows something so profound, so fundamental to creation, that if we watched very carefully we might be able to figure out the secret of its inner truth and knowing.
All of nature, if observed carefully, does indeed have an immense wisdom. It is innately invested with this invincible and inevitable knowing of self and purpose.
And yet curiously enough, the “self- conscious” human walks through life with none of this certainty. The core questions of our human existence and its meaning remained unanswered.
“Do I really know who I am? Why am I here living this life? When I die, what did this life mean? And where will “I” go afterwards? Why do we die anyway? And why is there pain and suffering? What does it all mean?”
In truth, few have the courage to step back and ask these difficult questions. Most choose to stay so activated by the distractions of the busy lives they have created and by the concerns of making a living, and the responsibilities of taking care of self, family and loved ones that there is little space left for these questions.
Our response to this world that is most often beyond our understanding is a very deep and subconscious fear within us; the fear of having no control over our own destiny. Our strategy to overcome this fear is to attempt to use our power and energy to gain a fleeting control; to build our lives around controlling our environment and others.
This approach to controlling our world leads us to a narrow sort of life experience that is based on a false and mundane
predictability, misguided strategies for getting our needs met, a fleeting and false sense of security and a deep subconscious fear of losing control and facing pain of one kind or another. The combination of our control strategies and our distracted busyness becomes our life. All of this because unlike the oak tree we cannot answer some very basic questions about who we are and why we are here. The answers to these questions would decidedly give us a new and expanded perspective on this thing called life.
The existential questions can come bubbling up fast once we put down the distractions and control strategies for getting what we believe we need to survive and open the door to face our deepest motivations for all we do.
The reward for this journey can lead to the doorway of our freedom.
Will you open the door?
By Elaine Marie
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