W H E N . Y O U ‘ V E . F I N A L L Y . F O U N D . Y O U R . P A T H
You’ve kept your eyes so far open for so long you thought they would burst, right? You’ve kept reading and reading and reading and listening and listening and listening and you finally say “I found my way, why do I have to keep searching for it?”
Are you sure you found exactly the right method, means and motive for your final search into the finale of all things? Don’t you think you should read another 50 or 100 books and listen to many, many, many more lectures and seminars and interview every possible person on the planet that has anything to say about anything before you can actually say “I’ve found my way; I’m ready to commit to it and put it into practice”?
Some say thinking is the way to get to the bottom of all things and others say thinking is exactly that which kills the ascertainment of same! What say you? Do you really think you have the right grasp on things here? And if so shouldn’t you be pursuing it with all due passion here and now instead of reading this diatribe on how everybody’s meanderings are not a sign that enlightenment is anywhere near in sight!
When you really find your way you won’t be stumbling in the dark anymore, you won’t be doubting your commitment to what you found anymore. You simply know that you have the pearl of great price. You’ll see others’ advice on how everyone and their uncle should open their eyes, open their ears, open everything, let in everything and there’s just never any end to it. What about putting into practice the things you’ve been learning and weeding out what you don’t need, what’s no longer serving your higher purpose?
WHAT MOST PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET ARE SORELY MISSING IS A SOLID FOUNDATION IN … ANYTHING !! They’ve dug up all their roots anywhere that they had them and they don’t have the slightest inkling what it’s like going forward with a foundation under them! They think it’s cool, it’s smart, it’s the modern way to reject anything and everything that has been tried and proven and solidified by much application!
They think it’s smart to blaze the trails to something newer and newer and newer, never valuing how much smarter it might be if it were added to some kind of a foundation, something dependable, something tangible.
When you find a teaching for example that really says everything for you, why in the world do you think you need to go all the way to the opposite extreme and check it out and re-check it and re-check it, using your Wikipedia and all kinds of encyclopedias to flesh out fancy knowledge – knowledge of all kinds of things that remotely touch on what you really want? Once you’ve found your way, isn’t it time to shore it up, polish it up, apply it and grow from it, grow deeply, grow with roots, grow with sincerity, grow with honesty and appreciation?
DrRobinStarbuck