Connections:
Colin Blundell was moved to write an exquisite piece sparked by our Friday Focus of December 28th: “What would your life be like if you erased everything from the past?” Here is a taste to whet your appetite. Read it when you have time to savor his words. It’s quite wonderful. Many thanks, Colin!
CLEAN SLATES AND SWIMMING AMONGST THE STARS:
…I suppose that the ideal state, one to which we all perhaps aspire, is one of infinite peace and quiet, a state of calm even in the thick of action. We work to get it, amass fortunes to get it, arrange our time in order to achieve it. The danger is that we put ourselves into a sleep which comes to be understood as the calm we were after in the first place. That way we become identified with all kinds of things that serve as distractions—unnecessary things like work, career, money, fun, hobbies, politics, clubs, societies & systems. We lose the way; we lose our souls. This can be called ‘self-calming’, putting oneself to sleep…
