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| Birth of the morning by Yuriyshevchenko |
It's January, the start of a new year in my actual existence although many believe that, as souls, we never leave the world in order to come back, moreover, no one knows how to come back again!
Early on at the start of this month I challenged myself with a question - does love guide my every action in life? I was inspired by Kahlil Jibran the poet, philosopher and artist who asks -
who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
I have been observing myself day by day to find out where do I stand, and it has been a difficult task to judge myself and be totally objective about it.
In my observation I recognized the "self" at the forefront in everything that I did and everywhere that I moved. That's where I learned that in many instances I was actually pre-occupied with judging the situations as good or bad and getting carried away by trying to maintain the good and happy, and avoid the sad or unhappy.
I learned that even when I was worried and concerned about other people I was in fact stabilizing the position of the "self" in controlling my behavior and forcing me to declare my unhappiness. The big question is, how could I love or be loving in all my actions when most of the time I am busy judging the situations or worrying about it which in fact it is a kind of feeding the "self". In those moments I was indeed inhibited to be there with my whole being and with my complete attention and love.
The whole experience was an eye opener for me and I realized that in life situations I just have to be there with boundless love instead of trying to judge everything and move up and down riding the waves of my emotions.
That is what RUMI my favorite poet has said about our true life:
As you start to walk out on the way,
the way appears.
As you cease to be,
true life begins.
As you grow smaller,
this world can not contain you.
You will be shown a being
that has no you in it.
#ourtruelife
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