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In may ways, the real journey into
the creative unknown starts with dissatisfaction. It starts when we
decide we are no longer satisfied with what we find in our life and
we decide we are going to find something different. We are going to
either find a more suitable environment or we are going to create
one. In reality both those approaches end up being the same. We seek
to change our external environment to something more suitable to our
liking. Most of us do not look to change our internal environment to
something more suitable that allows us to become happy with is.
Ultimately, since the
inner is reflected by the outer, there is
ultimately no real different if we look outward or inward. The only
difference is if the focus is directed outward or inward. Neither an
internal journey or an external journey is better than they other,
each is just very different. The main difference is whether or not
we choose to become the cause, and cause our creative life energy to
flow outward to change our world. Or, do we react to the world and
allow the outer world to be the cause and we change our inner world
to reflect the outer. What is best for us depends on what is
effective in our life for
what we incarnated to do.
What is different about the inward journey and outward journey is
whom do we see as responsible for creating the conditions we face.
If we look inward we have no one to blame but ourselves. However, if
we look outward, we tend to fix the responsibility on someone other
than ourselves. That in turn causes us to miss the root cause of our
dissatisfaction. The source of what we experience arises from within
our own being. We must look inward and make the inner change first
and allow them to ripple outward.
To act on the dissatisfaction of our current environment externally
without addressing why we are dissatisfied we limit and rob
ourselves of our creative power. The problem is we are looking to
fulfill a need that we see in the current external environment as
not fulfilling but the need is ultimately internal. That is, we are
looking in the wrong direction. More importantly, if we are trying
to avoid something externally, such as pain, we are not open to all
the possibilities that we have before us. We then begin to think the
external world is the cause of our pain but we do not look inside to
see why we may have created it.
The issue is rather than go inside and understand from where the
need and desire is coming and to try and satisfy the inner need and
desire, we never access the real root of the issue that is causing
our dissatisfaction. It needs to be understood, there is nothing
wrong with our desires, needs and wants. They are in fact what
propel us through life and desire are part of
the raw material of creation. We seek things, people or understandings to satisfy these
desires, needs and wants. Sometimes they are as as simple as “I am
hungry,” so we desire food.
The difficulties we face do not stem from the desires themselves.
Rather they arise from the reason for the desires and whether the
real need is physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.. Attempting
to satisfy a spiritual desire will not be alleviated by giving
something physical to the body. For example, feeling separation from
the
source/Source of our being/Being cannot be alleviated by an
physical lover no matter how powerful a physical experience it may
be. Similarly, the need for a physical companion with whom to share
life will not be alleviated by looking and finding God such as have
a profound
mystical experience. The issue is not what we do but
whether or not what we do addresses the origins of the desire. The
question is, “What is the real reason why we seek anything - what is
giving rise to our dissatisfaction?” Unless we
pull the string and
truly understand what gives rise to our desires, we will not find a
lasting
inner satisfaction with life. But, in looking to understand
what gives rise to our desires, we will create the occasion to
explore the depth and breadth of our
unlimited creativity.
Additionally, in exploring our desires and pulling the string on why
we have the desires we do, we will access the
truth of our being at
its deepest levels. The question then becomes, “Can we live
our truth in the world in which we find ourselves or do we need to
recreate the world we experience to live
our truth?’
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