The truth will set you free in any area of life. And so also with healing and awakening. Not only is truth what allows for healing of emotional issues and awakening, but the reality about healing and awakening is also freeing.
As far as I can tell, one of these “truths” is that healing and awakening both are endless. There is always one more issue to heal. There is always another layer of what we think we are that falls away. For all practical purposes, it’s endless.
If I think there is an end to healing and awakening, I’ll likely try to get to that end. I have a goal in mind. I get impatient. I may set aside other sides of my life so I can get the healing and awakening done with, and then I can address the others sides of my life again. I may get frustrated. Disappointed. Having the idea that there is an end to healing and awakening creates a lot of additional stress and struggle.
If I see healing and awakening as endless, it frees me up. It allows me to weave it into daily life as one of many strands. It becomes normal. It becomes one part of my life among many. There
It’s perhaps obvious. I assume most of us already see healing and awakening as endless. But somewhere in
A benefit of seeing healing and awakening as endless is that we know there is always one more step, and one more. We are less likely to think we have “arrived” and less likely to see ourselves as inherently better (or worse) than others because of it, or to go stale because we think there is nothing more to explore or discover.
Another benefit of seeing it as endless is that we all are in the same boat. We may be at different places on the path on all the different strands of development, healing, awakening, and maturing, but we are all on the path. There is always further to go. Always one more step, for all of us.
And it’s not a problem at all that it’s endless. It just means the exploration continues. What’s revealed is fresh and new. We see more and different patterns and connections. We find more underlying patterns and dynamics. As humans, we continue to heal, mature, develop. As this local expression of life, we continue to see more about ourselves and what we are.
Of course, that it’s endless is an idea, it’s my imagination. I don’t really know. It’s just what seems most likely within my current horizon. And it’s the view that seems most helpful to me now.
When I said “truth” in the first paragraph, it’s not meant in the sense of any absolute or final truth. It’s just what seems most real and accurate for me right now, and also most helpful in a practical sense. It may well change.
A cosmology footnote: To me, it seems likely that this universe will expand and then contract, and the energy will form another universe. A “heat death” as current science sees as most likely wouldn’t allow for
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Initial notes…
- What if what’s left is endless?
- in healing/awakening, what’s left is endless
- if think there is an end
- may try to get there, focus on an imagined endpoint, set rest of life aside
- may see others as having “arrived”
- when recognize + take in
- can still take care of what comes up
- and leaves more time for rest of life
- also, don’t see anyone as at an endpoint, always further to go for all of us, all in the same boat in that sense
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What’s left is innfinite / endless
When realize, take in
Change our relationship with it
Lighter touch
Still take care of as app, when comes up
But not to get rid of, arrive, get to an end, fix once and for all, etc
How approach healing and awakening if it’s endless
Leaves more space for rest of life
A footnote:
If we look at it from what we know about the universe from science and what we know about existence from our own immediate experience, it seems likely there is no end. If existence evolves and explores itself as this universe (and as us as part of it), it does look like there is no end. It seems most likely that it’s an ongoing process. Why would there be an end? This universe may expand, develop, and