When any human being talks about ‘living their life’ we are talking about the interval between life and death; the short burst of time our soul spends being human. During that period our naturally expansive and connected souls narrow themselves down into a limited identity (our ego).
We create that limiting ego by using our thoughts to tell ourselves stories about how reality ‘really’ works and who we are within it. We then act like those thoughts are a shared reality when that’s impossible. Everyone sees things a little differently, that’s what it is to be an individual.
We all essentially ‘are’ the sum of the decisions made by the internal logic of the people we subconsciously became by telling ourselves stories innocently built around random experiences. But what else could we do?
Like waves go up and down, the human soul oscillates. Before life and after death, the soul is wide and connected. In living life we are shaped by limits. And where there are limits there is an interval, and within that interval are challenges, and where there are challenges there is life.
Being is important, but living is too. Even our struggles are a part of our story. This is why it is better to flow than to fight.
peace. s
A serious childhood brain injury lead Scott to spend his entire life meditating on the concepts of thought, consciousness, reality and identity. It made others as strange to him as he was to them. When he realized people were confused by their own over-thinking, Scott began teaching others to understand reality. He is currently CBC Radio Active’s Wellness Columnist, as well as a writer, speaker and mindfulness instructor based in Edmonton, AB where he still finds it strange to write about himself in the third person.
