May I Describe For You What Your Life Really Is?

You do not have a life.

You do not own a life.

You are life itself.

As life, you exist on a planet surrounded by other forms of life. Be it a tree, a peacock, or a sparrow.

You, as life investing the form of a human being, exist in a world in which things happen. Climates change around you. Other human beings interact with you and around you.

And be it war or world peace, none of it has anything at all to do with this piece of life we call YOU.

And then something interesting happens. Something which changes the entire game.

You stop seeing yourself has a piece of life, and begin to see yourself as an “I.”

And this simple change in perception changes the entire world around you. Instead of realizing that you ARE life, you begin to look for one. You begin to compete. You begin to struggle.

And every single thing that used to happen around you, now happens TO YOU. You feel assaults from every direction. You are the victim in every sense. And thus you seek shelter. You enlist the help of others.

Something inside you then begins to react against this new idea. It tells you that while it is okay to feel upset about having been assaulted, it is also important to ignore these assaults. And the priest, the self-help guru, and the psychologist are born.

These conflicting ideas within yourself, coupled with those you receive from the psychologist, confuse you even more. And the turmoil that is outside of you pales in comparison to the one that is now inside of you.

And so you again run to seek shelter. This time from yourself.

And this is precisely where you find yourself today.

There is nowhere left to run. No shelters. No hideaways.

There is no place that this thing that you have created, this “I”, cannot find you.

So what is left to do?

Return home.

To the place it all began.

Return once again to being nothing but a piece of life.