1) Letting go, does the soul good
It really does! Letting go does the soul good, you can feel it inside. Peace is generated from the closure that comes with letting go. Detachment from what held you captive creates space to breathe and space to smile. You can say, “I have let go” and you can also say, “I am over it”, but you can only be sure if it doesn’t affect you emotionally, in a negative way, anymore. Once you have let go completely, it can be one of the best feelings, refreshing, like a bucket of cold water to wake you up! A feeling of relief, a feeling of weight being lifted off from the center of your heart, from the soul… 2) Taking a long time is not giving up, but preparing for the best. Many people see the hindering of completion as a sign of giving up. It is seen as failure because of laziness. No one takes into consideration how hard it can be to complete something. It is a time of growth and a time of struggle, a time of suffering and a time of fear. It is also a time for preparation, a time to gather courage and knowledge. It is a process that can take as long as you allow it; it is a time you prepare for the best. 3) Shutting up the mind lets you hear the heart better. Have you ever hear your heart speak? Or does everything come from your mind? Have you ever followed that voice inside of you that begs for something, but then it gets canceled out and clouded by the voice in your head, the mind? Maybe if you try to shut that voice up, a voice that has been trained to react only to what it was thought by experience, then the heart can speak. The mind is truly a place where our heart is held captive. Once the mind is shut up, then a time of change in your life begins. A time where you start to meet yourself, for whom you are, someone so different than what you thought you were. 4) There is a reason you hate the ones that love you. The ones you love… wow, they are the ones that get to your heart, your most inner self! Your soul. There for they carry a destructive bomb that only goes off inside of you. Do not take it personally; you also have bombs inside other people’s hearts. They know you all so perfectly, your strengths, your weaknesses… It is the time spent and the shared moments and feelings why you love them so much, and accepted the bomb to de placed there. I guess we can blame love, “you hate them because you love them”, heard that before? Well it is true. If you did not love them, they wouldn’t have the power to hurt you. Instead, they have the power to activate a bomb inside of you and let it blow up. That’s is why people are vulnerable when it comes to love, because as humans we have the ability to give it unconditionally! 5) A serious face doesn’t mean bad; it just might mean it has seen it already. So many things in this world, and hardly any of them make us go “WOW!”, when was the last time you were amazed? And I mean truly amazed! It seems the world has become something so common, a routine wonder. Why such a long face huh? Maybe it’s because we have seen it already… Why have we reached this level, a level or neglect to the beauty of this world, so accustomed to beautiful, wonderful, precious things! Why? Maybe we would smile just a little bit more if we saw the beauty of all things continuously without stop. 6) “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? So, what scared you that day!?” This words, wow when I heard this words! This sentence trespassed the center of my being. I hear it in the middle of a Wachuma, ceremony in Cuenca. At that moment absolutely everything inside me froze, even the world itself froze! I was taken back a few months ago and watched the exact moment at which I had stopped dancing, singing, smiling, and living… The moment of defeat, the moment that scared me to death, the moment that changed my being, who I am… Once I was able to pinpoint the moment, I was able to deal with it head on, stare at it’s cold dark eyes. Once done it, dealt with it, I was taken back to the present. I started smiling, dancing, singing and well, living. Living in a way I have never done so before. So, when did you stop, singing, dancing, and… living? 7) Travel light. I watched an exchange of words between a father and his son. The child sat on a big comfy sofa, amazed at the size and comfort of the couch. The boy knew it was on sale, so he asked his father, “Dad can we buy it?” Little did I know the father’s answer would define the rest of my life, “We only buy things we absolutely need, because the more things we have, the heavier we are to move around”. Maybe it only applies to traveling souls, people with a love for a different type of travel. The type of travel that changes and shapes you as you go. A permanent travel… 8) Say goodbye as if you would never see them again. It came from a song I heard on the radio. I wuickly thought about the people I didn’t say goodbye to properly. People I thought I would see again, and now doubt I will. People who were very special, and still are, but the consequences of life have either taken them away into eternity, or so far away from me. Are you a constant traveler? If your answer was yes! Then you know how hard it is to say goodbye. You would think it becomes easier with time and practice, but it only becomes harder and more painful. Therefore this song is right on when it says, we need to say goodbye as if we would never see that person anymore. That goodbye could be our last goodbye, so it should be said as the last one. 9) Don’t waste time; it is one of the few things in life one cannot get back. Time, something everyone hates, yet are dictated by it every second of our lives. Something intangible, yet, very unforgiving… We waste it all the time, it is hard to save and use wisely, but when the thought, of not wasting it comes up, we should go for it at all costs. Time, invisible, yet, very dangerous… It is one of the few things in life that threatens and actually attacks, and when it does, there is no going back… 10) The heart does control the mind, but the mind controls the body. Once you realize that through your heart your mind responds, then you notice that the things you feel are filtered then turned into actions. A strange thought, I thought the mind spoke and shut the heart up!? Which leads to this thought, “If the mind didn’t exist, then the heart alone would act through the body”. Crazy… dangerous! Which leads to this thought, “things would be much simpler, more honest, and solemnly pure”. That doesn’t happen though, our desires, emotions, and feelings, from the heart are taken into the mind. A dark and cold machine where all things are taken apart and filtered, altered, and prohibited. The process of conditioning of a lifetime is what our hearts go through in the mind. As we have been conditioned to see the world in a certain way and act a certain way, then the actions of the heart are canceled and re-written, it’s like a code. As I come back to a place again, and explore it to different heights, I notice extreme changes. Not only do I see it differently but also I see a glory I have not seen before. This glory of a place can only be seen after the walls of our own mind have been taken down, the machine has been turned off. Seeing something that has not changed in more than 100 years as different comes from the inside, from the heart. The change is noticeable because we have changed; we changed the way we look at things. The place, people, and things are seen in a different light. The light from our heart, a light so bright and strong, it displays the beauty of the world and us along within it as one.
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CategoriesAuthorHello, I am 21 years old. Fascinated with the struggles of life and the beauty that comes with them. I travel not to pin point places on a map, but to discover the true essence of humanity and what makes each one of us uniquely beautiful. All I want to do is breathe the air around me as I go. Just to breathe life in :) Archives
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