Living with Open Hands (2.0)

(My Philosophical Evolution) This version (2.0) is my inner work of systematic deconstruction, deconversion, uprooting, and dredging up a lifetime of deep-seated conditioning, ingrained beliefs, and embedded dogma, much of which has been unconscious; discerning trash from treasures and thoughtfully reconstructing a world and life view that reflects the shape of my heart. As I go deeper and beyond, answers fade into questions, certainty into uncertainty, knowing into unknowing.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

A Circular Paradox?

Life is way too rough (and interesting) to travel it alone...

Yet it is too difficult (and challenging and personal) to travel it with someone pulling in other directions...

Yet we are each too unique (at least I am) to find many others going in the same direction... people that "get me" and allow me to be true to my own heart...

Is there such a thing as a circular paradox?
Or is there another word for it???
Or do you supposed this is what community is all about???

If opening ourselves up and connecting with people is at the heart of things,

then what good is it to just connect with those that already agree with us?

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The exhaustion and heartbreak of the innerwork of deconstruction and deconversion

The process of progress toward integrity is very difficult inner work. Each word I write is full of heartbreak and freedom, sorrow and joy.

I didn't choose this path. It chose me and would not let go. I was content being who I was and who I was raised to be. But the cognitive dissonance and dis-integrity (disintegration) would not let me just be me.

This evolution of thought and belief was a painful revolution that would not leave me be. It was a quiet insurgency of the new over the old, reality over illusion, freedom over dogma, truth over conditioning; a lifelong process.

Living with Open Hands

Going deeper, piercing the facade, discerning and letting go of dogma, assumptions, and conditioning.

Discover the truth wherever it may be found.

Refine the truth within through the fire of discernment.

Follow the truth wherever it may take you.

Remember what you already know.

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?" (Rumi)

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” (Rumi)

"I asked myself, 'What is the myth you are living?' and found that I did not know. So... I took it upon myself to get to know my myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks... I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me." (Carl Jung)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life,
and you will call it fate.”
(Carl Jung)

Disclaimer

I have NO interest in convincing others to think in any certain way. Anything I post is simply something to think about. Everything I post is continually progressing and evolving so expect nothing to be static and all to dynamic. So don’t hold me to it. Just take it or leave it. But…

I AM interested in these three things:

1) That we all think and do what we know down deep is the right thing

2) That we all honor and respect that in others

3) That we all seek to understand more than to be understood.

Living with Open Hands (2.0)

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

A Circular Paradox?

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