This is one of my favorite scenes in movie history:
Although humans group together to worship this or that, humanity is very divided. We are segregated into rich vs poor, white vs brown, religion vs science, parents vs teenagers, teachers vs students...
But these outer divisions, are simply a reflection of an inner division.
Over the course of our lives, we can experience so much joy, but also the loss of that joy. We then yearn for more joy, seeking circumstances to give us more happiness, addicted to anything that causes a sense of thrill inside us.
Comparing this joy to that joy, we fall flat. We have become a bi-polar animal, at war with itself. Yearning for what's over there. Stuck in the outer world of circumstance, waiting on the world to change, or shouting at it to change.
The world at large is just a reflection of this. The collective world consciousness is engaged in battle after battle. Good vs Evil, Black and White. Essentially, we are only at war with ourselves, because of the stories we have been told and bought into. Whether true or not it is a self-fullfilling prophecy, a vicious cycle.
The only way to 'fix' it all is to return to our center, where there is no duality, there is only wellbeing.
"If you are fighting, stop fighting,
if you are marching stop marching,
come back to me, come back to me,
come back to me is my request"
-Cold Mountain
Your soul is calling to you.
You can turn off your television now. You can stop looking around you to tell you what to do or think or want. It's ok, you won't be left behind. You will find the life you've always wanted. Within yourself. The only way to be united as a whole is to unite the self. Breathe in, breathe out. Be here. Be here with yourself. Find that you are everything you need.




I like the reciprocal relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm; one reflects the other. Makes me think of fractals.
ReplyDeleteYes, EXACTLY :-) I didn't even think of Fractals, but that is a whole other connection to all this. The macrocosm IS the microcosm. As above so below, life imitates art.
ReplyDeleteUntil we stop imitating. Then art will imitate life, and as below so above. We create God in our image too. But once we realize this, we are forming a true relationship with God and we become One.
Life becomes our artform.
Heaven on Earth.
Thank you, Nancy for being such a great teacher :-)
Because you have the courage to learn...
ahhhh, paradox.
I hope you don't mind me reading your stuff. I really like it.
ReplyDeleteJorge, please do!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are!
(also, I added a paragraph on the end of my most recent post after you commented, just to let you know).