Sunday, October 28, 2018

Why is it so hard to find our true selves?


Have you found yourself? So many people searching for self fulfillment out there. So many lost souls, wandering the planet, looking for something that doesn't exist, seeking answers that don't exist. Unfortunately, by doing so, we may never find that inner peace path. Why? Because... wait for it.

There is no self.

Or at least, not the way we humans define it. You see, we are all one entity. All the flora and fauna found on this planet, possibly in the universe are inexorably connected by a common energy. Therefore, we will never find ourselves by connecting with our self. We are a finely tuned machine made up of many components, all working together to create our reality, our whole.

We are not meant to be independent. And it's a beautiful thing.

Or it should be. Without the human ego, it would be. With the human ego, we, as humans spend 99% of our time trying to place ourselves either above, below or isolated from the whole, manipulating the machine to suit our own selfish needs. We have a desperate need to know who we are because somewhere along the way, we have lost sight of the big picture.

Surprise. The needs of the many really do outweigh the needs of the few. Our refusal to stop feeding our own self interests, not only clouds our judgment, it's killing us. Because the further away from our interconnection we move, in pursuit of self, the more out of sync our “machine” becomes.

At the same time, we are also creating many false societies that work directly against the natural machine that is us. This complicates the matter of connecting with others who are caught up in the illusion. And if we cannot connect with each other in the way we were naturally intended, the magic can never happen.

We may never find ourselves because we keep looking for a definitive individual with definitive traits when we should be seeking a connection with the collective whole. And we do connect, sometimes. Problem is, we are finding human created collectives to belong to, rather than the natural collective which is designed to nourish, sustain and preserve us.

Those false collectives have another issue in common. They are made up of only human life. The natural collective doesn't just contain human life. It contains all life. Vegetation, sentient beings of all kinds and all natural matter, air, water, etc. Earth and all its' elements and inhabitants working together, each of us a piece of an intricate, balanced system is who we are.

The other issue is that right here and now, many of those components, human and otherwise are unhealthy. Others who served vital roles in sustaining all have simply gone extinct. When a part of a machine goes bad, the whole machine stops functioning properly. If too many parts are missing or malfuntioning, the fate of our natural “machine” AKA ecosystem is bleak.

So, what can we do? Well, a good start would be to begin mending those lost connections, then repairing the broken and replacing missing parts with others that serve to duplicate their function. This used to be a process that “mother nature” could handle on her own. However, at this point in time, she needs a little help. We humans have to let go of self and start living selfless as we were intended to. Otherwise, their may be nothing left of our selves to find.

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