"The most difficult thing in the world is to listen, to see. We don't want to see...
We don't want to look, because if we do, we may change.
... the one thing you need most is not energy, or strength, or youthfulness, or even great intelligence. The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new.
How much of everything you've held dear are you ready to have shattered, without running away?
The first reaction is one of fear. It's not that we fear the unknown. You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That's what you fear."
Author: Anthony de Mello
Book: AWARENESS: Conversations with the Masters
There is so much great content in the world today… and too few eyes are upon it.
This is what makes harmony so difficult, despite its formula being so simple.
Harmony has to fight against human nature to win…
Our nature is to protect ourselves, and new ideas are scary.
Our nature is to be safe, and being wrong feels dangerous.
Harmony starts with the “truth” of the moment - and to find the truth we must be curious to see what is truly there - not what we wish to be there.
To find the truth requires us to be curious not to what we already know and believe - but to what we may already know and believe wrongly.
This speaks to the importance of SPIRITUALITY. The “enlightened” speak to it as the difference between being asleep, and being woke.
… they speak to it in terms of darkness and light.
Living a life of greater harmony requires us to accept our limitations as human beings,
AND celebrate our ability as human beings to rise above our nature… into our spiritual selves.
A life of harmony requires, at least to some extent, for us to disengage with our human nature and engage with our spiritual nature. It requires us to disengage from our ego and engage with the universe and truth in the absolute.
It’s all tied together…
To appreciate the IS of the moment, more and more, we must be willing to learn something new… we must be willing to see something more…
Everyday I have less fear of losing the known… because everyday I see a small sliver of light in something new…
It’s all a process…
a practice…
away from who we think we are today…
away from what we know today…
from dark to light…
from asleep to woke…
realizing every new idea you learn
likely needs to be unlearned to go beyond it…
it requires a breach with nature…
it requires dancing with your spirit…
“It’s irritating to be woken up. That’s the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up.” Anthony de Mello
All I can do is share my own struggle, share my own observations and keep trying to achieve my own harmony…
one moment at a time
for a lifetime…
in harmony,
Nestor