You’re The Voice
I have often been accused of wearing glasses of cynicism. Cynicism begets cynicism, and in my own way, I do, but also, there is a spark of genius that I let loose inside myself. The heavy blocks of resistance and the reasons to stay neutral are far-reaching, and I don’t pretend to have the answer to them all.
I recently received a lovely little card from a friend from the future. She said she hadn’t seen any of my cards and that they were beautiful. It was her wish to add music to them for her walls, and a quote from one of my books was her inspiration. She had a question that she didn’t know how to answer. It was a simple question.
Can you make a point about my voice in this conversation?
Sure. It’s as easy as placing the white dot on the top of your nose. Your fat Rings of Love. And your beautiful Dark Waters. But they’re both just smudges of paint that obscure the Vision of the One. You can fill in your fantasies with whatever you like. Even our ancestors were demons in the senses and preoccupations. They liked to be nasty and freaky, and the things they told us growing up were mostly lies, which we take to be good because society has convinced us they’re true.
In fact, the real reason we ask “the big man” for advice is not to get out of anything. We do want to get out of the little box we’ve created for ourselves. We do not want to change; we want to escape what we’ve created.
No wonder we find it hard to listen to anyone who isn’t willing to make the amount of effort it takes to get out of the little box they created for themselves. For one thing, they wouldn’t answer the way they are. For another, having looked into those precious little brain boxes of the past, they wouldn’t be able to recognize their past when they were still looking at it. It’s different with adults; they wouldn’t do that, so they make up their own answers to what they think they would’ve been like if they could’ve been born ten thousand years ago. Those insights they make up.
I sympathize, but I can’t begin to tell you how different it feels to be willing to outgrow the way I’ve outgrown myself. The one thing I’ve come to learn is that the easiest way to grow is to cease to care. To just let something go. A quote from the evacuated figure here: fitted: take a look at all those growth and development factors in your own life and body. You’ll be surprised to find that what you need to do is not grow but take away one thing at a time.
Consider for yourself the idea of constantly removing the things you don’t need in your life in order to make room to grow. Is that just a pipe dream or something more? Think of it! Just removing one bad habit or unwanted responsibility can create room for new positive things to come into your life. You truly believe that truly!
In closing, I’d ask you to consider this idea, psychologist friends. Let’s remember that we’ve all got to keep up with the Jones’s for a lifetime to come. But what would life be without those toxic coping mechanisms?
