Hello World! or whoever reads this blog. Its been a while since I last wrote here some months ago. If I stopped it is not because I didn't want to write, but merely because I tend to fall into a profound procrastination and/or have let my mind controlled me instead of having an harmonic relation with her. Like Pi on his film, I was floating on an immense and vast ocean of ideas without being able to see the horizon! Both the pleasant and unpleasant thoughts distracted me from writing once again.
What has happened in the mean time? Well, the year started actually a bit slow, which it is not a weird feeling to me, so I decided to take it on the same pace. Then out of nowhere, in a very positive way, change has come since Easter week. There are sometimes on which through the negative, through the crisis, we find the road that lead us towards the perplexing horizon, and as so it has happened in this case.
Motion was paused in my life, in at least a frozen state. The emotion was stuck not being able to come out. Confusion arose driving me away from the here and now; was truly the moment to go back to basics. Recover the concentration, and develop once and for all the mindfulness.
How can one achieve such change? Well that's precisley of what I wanted to write down. Because sincerely from my own opinion ,without external help it is very difficult to notice how blind you had become for a moment! The alchemist act of going out of the cave by yourself into the light is not only a very difficult path, but one that is potentially lethal. Quoting Brothers Karamazov "To live apart from other people is something only the beast or the Holy Man can do" Moreover considering how the thoughts arise once you have cut any link of communication from others, to try to find in seclusion the answer to your problems might actually increase them vastly if you don't a proper soul training.
What then? Well let's not forget that equally dangerous is being unlucky enough or having the bad karma of finding someone on whom you deposit all your trust, and ends up being a destructive influence, making things much worse.
That is why, no matter if you know or do not know a Supreme Intelligence and/or Design, no matter if you pray or not, or simply contemplate and think that the only thing one can verify by its own is the eternal chaos, you should always... be open, hope, and visualize to meet remarkable people!
In an age on which to be friends with someone has been downgraded to merely being listed on his facebook page, after having shared 10 minutes on a dinner the evening before, we must rescue the true meaning of friendship. The real fraternity on which an individual holds the hand of his friend, helping him get out of the depths of mind. That is what we all should strive for!
In my case, I have been very lucky to find new friends which have had a very positive influence on me. Equally lucky it has been to rediscover the joy of being with old friends I had not seen for a while.
What is the best help one can receive? This is rather subjective. To every single individual to give and receive help has a different meaning. For me, the real help is the one on which they help you to realize that in the end, what counts the most is to help yourself.
Anger, Depression, Envy.. so many of these destructive feelings come from the fact you're not forgiving yourself. No one is being more critical nor destructive towards you, than yourself. Blinded by the mask of Ego, all your problems have been exoteric, yet their root is only within you. Only through realizing this, loving yourself, you will get out of the dark pit.
It is because of this, that the best help you can give or receive, is the notion that improvement, healing and strenght reappear in the moment you give a breathing space to your happiness and your self-esteem, in the moment you realize Ego is and has been all the time a stupid companion driving you away from your real goals.
