Hi Sarah, I have 'watched from afar' as your journey rolled on. This question of 'hope' is the biggest idea I am working on in my personal journey. I seriously cannot see anything positive emerging from this divisive, isolating emotion.
I am 77 and a year ago a simple ladder accident ended up with Traumatic brain Injury which affects me s…
Hi Sarah, I have 'watched from afar' as your journey rolled on. This question of 'hope' is the biggest idea I am working on in my personal journey. I seriously cannot see anything positive emerging from this divisive, isolating emotion.
I am 77 and a year ago a simple ladder accident ended up with Traumatic brain Injury which affects me still. However the good news is that when faced with a 'hopeless' problem, things begin popping if you are open to it. Living a 'hopeless; life is a process that is ongoing, but I can say that I and my supportive partner have witnessed the changes in attitudes as a result of the accident, and the easiest way to describe it is that I have been 'rebooted'.
That is why I resonate with what you are writing. It took my accident to jog my mind out of the classic 'want, want, want' attitude that our society has sold us all on as the way ahead.
Forty year of spiritual 'work' never opened me like this did. The mere idea of being able to enjoy sitting without thinking became, with the help of an ever present ego, just another want that was never fulfilled.
I don't know if this is helpful to you but for me, it's all about letting go of the machine I used for 77 years because I was terrified of what big bad future awaited those who didn't try hard, harder and even harder. The point is tat no amount of spiritual practice got me to feel safe enough to do nothing. It took an irrreversible event to remove 'me' from my 'ego-brain long enough for something else to be seen. I too am totally bereft about climate change, and I have no faith in those lovely but deluded individuals claiming to have answers. Sitting in a place of no answers has been my only breakthrough - and it ain't over yet.
I love this, Ian. I also think (*though you can't say these kinds of things too far and wide) that some of us do get hit with a condition that STOPS us for very good reasons. I, too, had to do long slabs in the unknowing wilderness to KNOW the answers (or that there are no answers).
Hi Sarah, I have 'watched from afar' as your journey rolled on. This question of 'hope' is the biggest idea I am working on in my personal journey. I seriously cannot see anything positive emerging from this divisive, isolating emotion.
I am 77 and a year ago a simple ladder accident ended up with Traumatic brain Injury which affects me still. However the good news is that when faced with a 'hopeless' problem, things begin popping if you are open to it. Living a 'hopeless; life is a process that is ongoing, but I can say that I and my supportive partner have witnessed the changes in attitudes as a result of the accident, and the easiest way to describe it is that I have been 'rebooted'.
That is why I resonate with what you are writing. It took my accident to jog my mind out of the classic 'want, want, want' attitude that our society has sold us all on as the way ahead.
Forty year of spiritual 'work' never opened me like this did. The mere idea of being able to enjoy sitting without thinking became, with the help of an ever present ego, just another want that was never fulfilled.
I don't know if this is helpful to you but for me, it's all about letting go of the machine I used for 77 years because I was terrified of what big bad future awaited those who didn't try hard, harder and even harder. The point is tat no amount of spiritual practice got me to feel safe enough to do nothing. It took an irrreversible event to remove 'me' from my 'ego-brain long enough for something else to be seen. I too am totally bereft about climate change, and I have no faith in those lovely but deluded individuals claiming to have answers. Sitting in a place of no answers has been my only breakthrough - and it ain't over yet.
Maintain the rage!
Ian
I love this, Ian. I also think (*though you can't say these kinds of things too far and wide) that some of us do get hit with a condition that STOPS us for very good reasons. I, too, had to do long slabs in the unknowing wilderness to KNOW the answers (or that there are no answers).
x
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