#1: Idleness is the devil's hand
December 8, 2012
As I sit here determined to engineer for myself a new and improved life, I can't help but suspect that these intentions are anything but sincere. I wish for such desirable outcomes to manifest in my life, yet I am unwilling to do the work required to effect such changes. Thus, I sit in this suspended state of stagnation, and any efforts made to expand myself from this prison have only met walls, no matter the direction.
"I'll start studying tomorrow!" might be one such empty promise I have made to myself within the past month.
"Starting tomorrow, I will exercise regularly." is another phrase I repeat to myself every couple of weeks, yet it ultimately carries no weight in the collective sum of my actions.
What things ought to be done to ensure that I don't further find myself in increasingly deplorable situations? Can I avoid what seems to be a downward spiral into the rabbit hole, beyond an event horizon of madness and bitter disappointment?
Only I myself can definitively say so. Only I have the ability to effect such changes upon my own lifestyle. In all manners of speaking, I am the master of my domain, and I am too quick to dismiss this as a trivial tautology not applicable to a set of greater and more relevant truths about myself. Recognizing the extent of one's own influence, however, is a key to realizing one's own potential. I can look at my feet and convince myself that it is I who is stationary while the Earth turns beneath my feet.
Finding yourself as the center of the universe is an awakening yet harrowing process - you realize a death of the ego, but you also come to understand that our perspectives are invariably centered upon our own existences. All events in space-time happen in shells around an observer (such as myself), and these spheres extend out into the very origins of the universe itself, measuring time along its progression. As the two are inexorably linked to one another, our realities are not centered in an absolute framework of time and space, but are independent and unique to one another.
Realizing this 'centeredness' is one key to understanding one's own place in the aggregate of human experiences. Many ancient philosophies have targeted this idea of the center as being fundamental to harmonious existence - for example, in the Tao Te Ching, one particular quote strikes me as appropriate for this stream of thought:
"The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle."
When will I truly find my own center? To know that I must find it is horrendously inadequate. I find it incumbent that I deliver myself from just knowing this fact, to actually realizing it and incorporating it into my everyday experiences.
Here's to an ever-improving and mindfully centered life!
Finding yourself as the center of the universe is an awakening yet harrowing process - you realize a death of the ego, but you also come to understand that our perspectives are invariably centered upon our own existences. All events in space-time happen in shells around an observer (such as myself), and these spheres extend out into the very origins of the universe itself, measuring time along its progression. As the two are inexorably linked to one another, our realities are not centered in an absolute framework of time and space, but are independent and unique to one another.
Realizing this 'centeredness' is one key to understanding one's own place in the aggregate of human experiences. Many ancient philosophies have targeted this idea of the center as being fundamental to harmonious existence - for example, in the Tao Te Ching, one particular quote strikes me as appropriate for this stream of thought:
"The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle."
When will I truly find my own center? To know that I must find it is horrendously inadequate. I find it incumbent that I deliver myself from just knowing this fact, to actually realizing it and incorporating it into my everyday experiences.
Here's to an ever-improving and mindfully centered life!
