To live fulfillment, we must release identity and embrace difference. Fulfillment To grasp what might be meant by leading a fulfilling life, to experience it and feel it, we have to have an understanding of our environment. Otherwise, we have no bearings. Our lives unfold and connect with everything around us, and everything inside. We dream and fantasize at times, and sometimes spend long hours interpreting events in our lives, but we always come back to our relationship with this place where we exist, our universe. Our reality, what we consider to be real, is a cornerstone of our understanding of how to live fulfillment. We forget this sometimes. We fall into a routine of selective perception of our surroundings, and sometimes fail to see and hear the remarkable — that we could connect with, if only we noticed. How might we change this way of being? For the idea or … [Read more...]
To Live Fulfillment We Must Embrace Creativity and Release Judgement
What judge of art could ever create art? What judge of life could ever create life? Life as Art Despite the limitations society might press on us, life is limitless, creative, and our deepest urge is to express ourselves in our own way and be heard. Our deepest desire is to think of, conceive of, and act out, our lives as a work of art. This natural desire is central to the question of leading a fulfilling life, and central to our satisfaction in life. And it is so very fragile, that if we lose sight of our sense of life as creativity, our own invention and expression of what is important, then we are prone to losing all sense of the value of life itself. We become zombie-like, or worse, resentful of all others who are busy on their own personal arc to creating themselves. We become dominated by fear and seek comfort in conformity, secretly wishing all others to be just … [Read more...]