This is a series of philosophical free writes that I’ve done whilst pondering the meaning of life.
“We have all but one mission in this life – to express our souls to the best of our God-given ability. We are given these minds to utilize the signs of the divine to show the emotional world at large, through all things big and small. It is a feat of greatness to put into words the wonders of our world. With humility, we turn the meekest of inklings into the deepest of discussions. It is human nature to want to relate our internal world to our external one. It is with great reverence that we explore our most minute understandings. To what end, other than to connect with all things at the most intimate level.”
We have all the power in the world to create, we just have to choose what to do with it.
“Something sparks deep down inside each person, at some point in their minute journey through this life, and it causes a whirlwind of change within them. Then, it exponentially grows within them, and it catches speed, as potential energy forming into kinetic energy, but seems to plateau out and subsequently ebbing and flowing through its next phases. This feeling is experiential development in our core belief systems, and in most cases, is the basis for our understanding of this world. This spark can be caused internally or externally, brought on by a single idea or event, and it alters the course of time itself. However, that goes to argue fate versus destiny. Were you always meant to have the spark, or did the spark set you on the path towards a new end? We may never know, but what we do know is this: inspiration such as this is a basis for our foundational beings and is to be revered in all ways.”
“The comparison between two or more things is the way that thought chains form in the human mind. It is estimated by this writer that it is what sets us aside from animals. That our consciousness developed not only from emotion, but by being able to relate this thing to that thing. That we are able to verbalize with language, the sound of the word “chair” equates to the object upon which I sit, but also something as deep as the Transcendentalist Movement is akin to the faith of the Native American peoples. It is odd, how much can be compared. It is a form of measurement. The length of this sentence, versus the length of that sentence, or the length of this ruler versus the length of that ruler. It is how we determine other forms of measurement, the length of this minute versus the length of this day. My longwinded explanation for: we humans in a constant state of trying to gauge the who, what, when, where, why, and how, by relativity. It is through comparison that we relate our soul to the experience of living. Why do we crave to measure, compare, and relate? What drives this need to think in this fashion? I believe it is in the image of our creator, of the universe itself, instructing us to be observers of natural laws and balances, which are upheld by our conscious participation in determining a value against another value. It could be said that it is the mathematics of comprehension.”
“Pain is an abject reality for every human being. The great deception is that we cannot transcend beyond the obscurity of our perceptions of this pain. The pain itself is inescapable, but the absorption of this pain is optional. It is up to us to accept the suffering in its entirety. We can make space to process and imbue ourselves with this feeling of discomfort, but intuitively we know that it is temporary and will not last forever, even when it seems sempiternal. So why do nihilists agree that pain is an absolute, when it is a variable of many simultaneous states? Again, it is because they have chosen to accept the optional perception of pain, whereas an optimist has chosen to refute it. So I implore you to look to your understanding of the notion that suffering equals enlightenment and know that enlightenment exists in spite of the suffering, because one chose the path of a higher vibrational viewpoint. The mind is greater than matter, and the matter of pain is inarguable, but the metaphysical response to it is entirely based on your participation.”
The Cleanliness of Living
While it is vitally important not to live in filth, for the upliftment of our external world, it is equally important to make sure our minds are free of filth as well. To live, we learn lessons in the dirty moments, and we thrive through our cleanest ones. We must keep our hearts and minds the way we keep our homes. Once, I had an idea that people with dirty cars did not care for themselves as much as they cared for the environment, and alternatively that those with clean cars were probably more prone to litter. That in and of itself is a black and white thought, where they are not so literally tied to one another, but as a metaphor it works fairly well.
When a person takes care to have good personal hygiene, they are pleasant to be around. If a person has poor personal hygiene, they can still be quite pleasant but perhaps from a few feet away. This is also true of mental, emotional, and spiritual hygiene. A person who works on their perspectives, values, internal struggles, and way of existing, is someone who is generally very wise and may offer more compassion to others personal plights. A person who ignores their inner work and focuses on material things, may often disregard the struggles of others as they disregard their own.
This leads us to the mirror of judgement, when these two sides cannot empathize with one another. The person who works on the internal, sees the external focusing person as not having enough depth or emotional intelligence, whereas the person who focuses on the external, thinks the person working internally is lazy, lacks motivation or comprehension of duties, and is “stuck in the clouds”.
This comes down to how these two individuals see things. The Internal person focuses on the things one cannot see, and the External person focuses only on what they can see. While both things hold value, and life is truly about finding the balance, it is difficult to cross the bridge between these two ideologies. It is my hope that my readers would take into account: most people are a mixture of both, or that these may be two stances for any number of debates. The solution, I’m afraid, is that these two people allow each other to live their own patterns, while respecting the boundaries of one another to the best of their given ability, because if you asked either one to live the other way around, it would be a betrayal of their deepest core values.
The heart of the matter is this: You may find yourself often debating, “Do I take care of myself emotionally, which may take time which could be better spent taking care of my environment, or do I take care of my environment rather than my internal world?”
This comes down to the truth of where you believe it matters to be judged more: Materially, in the legacy you leave to those you leave behind, or Spiritually, in the legacy that awaits you in the hereafter?
Both the internal and external person, sometimes we are both, will face the dilemma in each moment, and it is an ongoing negotiation of how to prioritize the cleanliness of living.