Wednesday, February 10, 2010

WARNING! Personal opinions and beliefs follow.

Yet another warning! These are my personal beliefs and not necessarily based on any kind of "expertise" other than 25 years of living life.

In Shelby Soule's blog about the Four Quartets she brings up some interesting questions, I would like to share my philosophies that answer those questions for me.
Shelby asks:
...how conscious must we be to live a life fully? How do we know which reality to grasp, and which to let go? How can we experience a moment, and suck from it all the beauty and possibilities it holds? How do we get a hold of a 20-minute lifetime of our own?
and my personal responses would be:

"How conscious must we be to live life fully?" Depends on the perspective you have on "full" really. For me, I maintain the most in-the-moment sort of life that I can. I believe that living life fully and in the moment is simply reestablishing yourself every time you can, which becomes a sort of gut feeling that you use for maintenance of your in-the-moment lifestyle. Reestablish with yourself that the things you are doing and the goals you're working on achieving are really goals that make your heart light. If you LOVE your what you're doing then it will be fun and easy, even when it's very difficult. The challenge will be part of the fun. The "consciousness" is attainable through living in the moment. Living in the moment is easy if you are constantly happy with the choices that have led you to where you are, you don't look back because you feel good about what you did that brought you to this place, the now which is your reward for those decisions. You only look forward to plan around the linear time that allows you to maintain function in a society based on a scheduled day. Looking forward is really only necessary to make certain you don't miss the occasions that help you achieve your goals. This is why I have an alarm for everything. I look forward, set an alarm and forget about my future in order to live in the present to the fullest.

"How do we know which reality to grasp and which to let go?" Easy, go with your gut. You've been on this plane of existence learning from every moment for as long as you've been alive. If you don't trust yourself, you should probably work on that before trying any of this. Trust yourself to go with the best possible option out of any situation based on the accumulation of life experiences which brought you to now.

"How can we experience a moment, and suck from it all the beauty and possibilities it holds?" Live in the moment. It might not be easy at first but it gets easier. Not that I'm a pro or anything but I'm working on it.

And finally; "How do we get a hold of a 20-minute lifetime of our own?" Dream. Maybe not of drastic changes but dream of little things. Things that make you happy, things that scare you, things that are awful, awesome and cathartic. Then make them happen. The best dreams come true if you dream a little at a time and leave the big picture too big to see. Just feel it. Damn I sound like a hippie...

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