Because its time...
I believe that we humans tend to associate growth with speed. We accelerate to get somewhere faster. Oftentimes this somewhere, this place on the map, is a marker of growth, point of transformation or newly adopted understanding. But I’ve learned that the biggest secret to growth is taking things slowly – specifically which things to take slowly. Going slow has helped me become more patient, mindful, meticulous, less anxious, and generally healthier. This growth feels large-scale, progressive, synonymous with Dhamma (the law of nature), sustainable, and consciously impacting the earth.
When we go slow we retain more information. Don’t you think its strange how most education systems around the world pack 10-12 courses in a year? Courses loaded with completely new concepts (to us) and dense materials. Its no wonder we can’t remember many things we learned in history when we were younger or scientific experiments. And how come philosophy is not a required course? Is it important to have our own philosophy for our personal life and beliefs about this enchanted and corrupt planet we live on and call “home”? Should we accept and ‘understand’ everything society, family, and friends tell us? Education systems jam-packed with lectures, essays, exams, projects, and minimal experimentations, fosters insignificant benefits, if not a completely negative effect on the strength of our concentration, and awareness of our true passions and purpose.
If we don’t exercise a well-paced speed learning things in depth and experimentally, its likely we won’t remember these things at all, speak our wisdom and voice confidently, live our truth, and fully grasp the themes intertwined in our lifestyles, sicknesses, governments, and society as a whole. When we can understand these themes we come closer to our truth and the law of nature that holds the divine and everlasting answers.
The first step is surrendering to the hard cold fact that we have been sickly conditioned.
Next, make time immediately to get away from everything you’ve been surrounded by your entire life. Question everything.
Things I value and believe strongly in:
- Talking to children with the same authenticity and truth as I do with my friends and family
- Knowing the different benefits of making decisions as an individual and as a community
- Allowing space for deepness and intuitive trust when meeting strangers and new friends
- Acknowledging energy – that everything is made of energy, vibrating, speaking
- Striving for harmony and bliss (through spirit, spirituality, spiritual strength)
- Knowing nutrients and taking food consumption seriously (eating organic and vegan when possible)
- Befriending your intuition and trusting oneself
- Consuming less toxins – alcohol, synthetic drugs, non-organic food
- Knowing your H2O’s purity
o Search “Flouride effect on the brain
- Doing instead of waiting
o Start making plans not waiting for them to happen to you
o Form your own ideas instead of waiting for them to come to you
o Don’t wait for financial stability to pursue your dreams
- Drop the need to please
o Believe in your intellect. You have seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and felt so much already. Trust in the lessons you’ve learned first hand.
- Love always wins. No winner gets crowned in an angst vs. angst quest.
“Your effect on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
- Jim Carrey