Thank you for expressing and sharing this; I couldn't agree more with the essence of what you're saying.
These quotes (lacking nuance and context) go from being inspirational mantras to some sort of ideal and we start hearing them as a universal truth: I 'have to' love what I do, so that I will never 'have to' work another day in my life—also assuming that 'work' is something to eradicate completely, as an underlying negative connotation is now assumed with this word.
I see that with every new mindset or opportunity we create, with every new attempt to liberate people in the same homogenous way, we equally create new cages, yet another way to stay trapped in the grind of achieving. The idea we could 'have and be it all' creates this belief that we should and, in addition, that our lives need to look like certain way. It becomes a cycle of striving for freedom while reinforcing the same systems that keep us shackled by 'ideas turned ideals' we supposed to aspire to.
Untangling and detaching our sense of worth and belonging from our external outputs is, indeed, a liberating endeavour, and how this looks like is highly personal; I belief here we have an opportunity to inspire, learn and grow from and with each other, to celebrate each of us individually, expressing ourselves and our quirks even more, rather than forcing us to 'be' and 'do' the same.
I relate to what you call the inner journey as a vertical alignment, from root to stars and everything in between. As we continue to decondition, it's often a challenging and confronting journey to come into alignment with our whole selves, truths, contradictions, and complexities, but, in my experience, a necessary one that can reveal what is truly important, not in a philosophical sense, but in a deeply personal and experiential one.
The outer journey I see as our horizontal alignment, spanning 360 degrees, and it is about opening up to what is outside of us, from that aligned place of self. The outer journey, as you say, then can become this beautiful extension of that internal process. In this space I often ask myself: "What wants to happen when I am here? and I just wait for my body to respond before I take further action. These journeys are a dance between being and doing, receiving and acting, grounded in a way that feels true to who we are in the moment.
We are worthy just by being born; we belong just by existing, and I think your closing words "you'll be okay" give such permission to breath and surrender a little bit more in trusting ourselves and the universe. It reminds me of this phrase by Domingos Sabino (leading candidate for creating this saying): "Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it’s not fine, it’s not the end.”
Thank you for expressing and sharing this; I couldn't agree more with the essence of what you're saying.
These quotes (lacking nuance and context) go from being inspirational mantras to some sort of ideal and we start hearing them as a universal truth: I 'have to' love what I do, so that I will never 'have to' work another day in my life—also assuming that 'work' is something to eradicate completely, as an underlying negative connotation is now assumed with this word.
I see that with every new mindset or opportunity we create, with every new attempt to liberate people in the same homogenous way, we equally create new cages, yet another way to stay trapped in the grind of achieving. The idea we could 'have and be it all' creates this belief that we should and, in addition, that our lives need to look like certain way. It becomes a cycle of striving for freedom while reinforcing the same systems that keep us shackled by 'ideas turned ideals' we supposed to aspire to.
Untangling and detaching our sense of worth and belonging from our external outputs is, indeed, a liberating endeavour, and how this looks like is highly personal; I belief here we have an opportunity to inspire, learn and grow from and with each other, to celebrate each of us individually, expressing ourselves and our quirks even more, rather than forcing us to 'be' and 'do' the same.
I relate to what you call the inner journey as a vertical alignment, from root to stars and everything in between. As we continue to decondition, it's often a challenging and confronting journey to come into alignment with our whole selves, truths, contradictions, and complexities, but, in my experience, a necessary one that can reveal what is truly important, not in a philosophical sense, but in a deeply personal and experiential one.
The outer journey I see as our horizontal alignment, spanning 360 degrees, and it is about opening up to what is outside of us, from that aligned place of self. The outer journey, as you say, then can become this beautiful extension of that internal process. In this space I often ask myself: "What wants to happen when I am here? and I just wait for my body to respond before I take further action. These journeys are a dance between being and doing, receiving and acting, grounded in a way that feels true to who we are in the moment.
We are worthy just by being born; we belong just by existing, and I think your closing words "you'll be okay" give such permission to breath and surrender a little bit more in trusting ourselves and the universe. It reminds me of this phrase by Domingos Sabino (leading candidate for creating this saying): "Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it’s not fine, it’s not the end.”