Inside Outside

“I must also have a dark side If I am to be whole”- Carl Jung

Hello,

What is it like to look in the mirror?

What do we see there?

What is it like to lie down, breathe deeply, and wonder what you are meant to be?

What is it like to be whole? Are we not?

Hopes, dreams, ideas, passions and all the rest. Ready and waiting to blossom. Constantly changing whether we want it to or not. Do we flow with the changes? Or do we attempt to resist? Well the current carries us downstream regardless. One way is a lot more graceful then the other. I know which way I choose.

This “river” is also a reflection of you. The tide can burst over the banks in a flood. And how do these happen? Too much rain and ineffective drainage or man made interference. What happens when the rains pour for too long? What happens when you try to restrict the flow of life? What happens when you try to control too much?

You live in constant engagement with the process of living, your body and brain regurgitates and digests your engagement as it goes along, you put a lot of crap in, a lot comes out, or it stays until there’s too much stuck in there. You go against the flow and eventually you capsize or run out of energy until you’re going with the flow again, but you conserve no energy by always fighting it. It’s best to go with the flow, conserve your energy for the parts it’s truly needed.

You live in a flow of changes, coexisting with infinitely evolving, different conditions, other beings, different events unfolding, if you navigate your way skillfully there’s so much you can do with it, so much value from the experience and so much to be enjoyed in the process of it, in the passing of it and in your passing by.

Sailing down river can be quite frightening. There’s a lot of people asleep or drunk in their crafts just slowly floating downstream. There’s a lot of people fighting. There’s a of people controlling. There’s a lot of people who don’t know what life is and do not value it, are even threatened by the signs of life – the river itself, takes care of everything we need it to, why do we fear it? You are far more likely to die of drowning if you are afraid to float, then if you nimbly guide yourself, it is something you can always get better at. At any point you can decide to practice your navigation or sailing skills.

Acceptance is part of going with the flow. You accept, you are on a river, the river runs in a certain way with currents and climates along the way. You accept, you have a vessel and it has it own predetermined qualities, resources and abilities; You have the one which you’ve got, why would you not accept it?

You accept, you cannot control the flow, you cannot determine the flow, and you do not create the flow of life; Life happens. You accept, that life has never closed it’s doors on you until you have left it. You accept, the best way to make your way around, is a little direction and guidance with and not against the flow.

Then you must only decide, what do you want to do for now? And will you enjoy it as much as you possibly can? Will you sit in the beauty of life and accept it for all it is?

You are a part of this life. This beautiful and strange thing. It’s the best and worst thing we’ll ever know. I won’t let my enjoyment slip just because everything doesn’t happen my way, and everything doesn’t go as planned, and things happen – my enjoyment flows with the life and does not depend on anything other than how I see it and feel it.

Love is like, the acceptance and abundance in life, living and giving this acceptance, giving this abundance and enjoying being there with it. It is not something you need power of, the power inherent in it will be apparent in itself. It reciprocates itself, it grows towards the light, it breathes in darkness, it thrives in dirt, it stands tall in the air and flowers and fruit can grow there.

This is love, abundance and giving. Do not put charges on this. Do not put controls on this. Do not put conditions on this. Do not direct this, unless it asks for direction, and even then only can you point it to the light, to the soil, to the water, to where it is best, to where it will thrive. You do not choose where it is best, for anyone you love, is best where they feel this, and where they have it already in abundance, because this will only beget more love and abundance, by letting it be and by giving it the love and abundance you’d like to. This just creates more.

Accept it. Sometimes we’ll be sad, it’s not something to fear. If we face and accept it, there’s much more to be gained, retained and used from this. Any fear can be built up into a great and terrifying mess, but it can also wash away in the flow if we learn from the experience. Even in sadness can we grow an abundant life, it will naturally wash away as it’s supposed to, if we let it flow as it comes, if we live and accept the flow, the love and the abundance.