As I get older, Life requires a certain kind of patience that is lost on the young. A kind of patience that realizes that all the burgeoning energy of youth will not thwart or crack the lessons to be learned in it's pages--been there, done that. This kind of patience gives way to the awareness that it is good to save one's energy and drive for the areas that are open for 'in roads' to be put within. A rock wall is still hard and still hurts just as much as it did two centuries ago.
It is age, pain, and experience that teaches these lessons and there is probably no other way to learn them than through many false starts. For some of us that wisdom is tough to come by and for others the outcome may be intuited before the chicanery is fully in swing. As for the reasons why either may be true, it may be posited that there is no way for us to see all the facets of this puzzle. The karma and intricate inter weavings of the learning---the whys and wherefores are likely seldom known to the full extent, even of the one who may repeatedly test to see that fire is still hot or that iron is still cold and hard or that when you push and force 'your way' there is usually something that pushes back whether right then or delayed for a time.
The Tao de Ching states that, "water being the softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world". Perhaps virtues like patience and love have the same effect within the universe of human emotion. It is also said, "stand still and that which you need will come to you". It is maybe by patience and centeredness...stillness...that many needs are met. Perhaps it is not through 'the chase' that true, deep human needs and desires are always fulfilled, but maybe sometimes rather by standing still in the center of your soul perhaps you can catch the voice of God in the Silence that we all share in the Center where we are in Truth, all Conjoined.
The mind would tell us that in Patience and Silence there is no motion. The mind would have us believe that it is in the external world that our 'answers' to our dillemas are found. The mind would have us believe that we need to go out and 'do something' and that that is where our solutions lie, but do they?
The external world begs of the resources of the internal or inner world to come forth. They are clues to one another: mirrors which inspire and help the other to grow and develop if we are watching--paying attention to what is happening. If we miss it it will happen again and again, perhaps with different faces and in different places. Getting to the bottom of the learning of our own Spirit- tailored exercise in the school of wisdom can be frustrating to say the least, but with much patience and longsuffering combined with the diligent looking into the stillness of the ocean within we may find that the answers are really closer to us than Breath itself, and than in looking outside we have just merely looked beyond them where they have been the whole time---with us and in us.
It is age, pain, and experience that teaches these lessons and there is probably no other way to learn them than through many false starts. For some of us that wisdom is tough to come by and for others the outcome may be intuited before the chicanery is fully in swing. As for the reasons why either may be true, it may be posited that there is no way for us to see all the facets of this puzzle. The karma and intricate inter weavings of the learning---the whys and wherefores are likely seldom known to the full extent, even of the one who may repeatedly test to see that fire is still hot or that iron is still cold and hard or that when you push and force 'your way' there is usually something that pushes back whether right then or delayed for a time.
The Tao de Ching states that, "water being the softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world". Perhaps virtues like patience and love have the same effect within the universe of human emotion. It is also said, "stand still and that which you need will come to you". It is maybe by patience and centeredness...stillness...that many needs are met. Perhaps it is not through 'the chase' that true, deep human needs and desires are always fulfilled, but maybe sometimes rather by standing still in the center of your soul perhaps you can catch the voice of God in the Silence that we all share in the Center where we are in Truth, all Conjoined.
The mind would tell us that in Patience and Silence there is no motion. The mind would have us believe that it is in the external world that our 'answers' to our dillemas are found. The mind would have us believe that we need to go out and 'do something' and that that is where our solutions lie, but do they?
The external world begs of the resources of the internal or inner world to come forth. They are clues to one another: mirrors which inspire and help the other to grow and develop if we are watching--paying attention to what is happening. If we miss it it will happen again and again, perhaps with different faces and in different places. Getting to the bottom of the learning of our own Spirit- tailored exercise in the school of wisdom can be frustrating to say the least, but with much patience and longsuffering combined with the diligent looking into the stillness of the ocean within we may find that the answers are really closer to us than Breath itself, and than in looking outside we have just merely looked beyond them where they have been the whole time---with us and in us.