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| relaxed1 |
on Sun 28 Feb 10, 9:15 AM to relaxed1's blog.
I have recently learned a lesson. It was interesting, painful, and somewhat disquieting – at my age, with my intelligence and life experience. It is all too easy to think that we know so much, much harder to accept that we know so little.
The lesson was that wants, needs and desires are fleeting. They can be satisfied almost instantaneously, but what is left is a gaping chasm of emptiness.
What I actually want, need and desire is something more sustainable, longer lasting, more enduring, and to find that will take time, effort and patience. For sure it *might* come about instantly, but in all probability it will take time.
It requires a truly open mind to realise that, and it helps to have a good and patient teacher, one who realises the frailty of humanity, the flawed nature of us all, but has the patience to see the possibilities within a person.
When one has a mirror held up in front of one's face, it is easy to see the flaws, if one is willing to see them, and to recognise the glaring faults. But it also needs one to be open to having that mirror held up, to be open to the possibility that we are all flawed, but that it is only a veneer that covers who we truly are – or can be.
Therein lies true wisdom
| 28 Feb 10, 10:44 AM Manson UK(M), 2 yrs |
Some interesting thoughts there, which I can relate to very much. Thanks for sharing. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Goethe. | |
| 7 Mar 10, 7:45 PM newbie38 UK(DD), 2 yrs |
The difficulty comes in finding that teacher, does it not? |
