The Myth of Full Potential
I saw a video the other day. Palm trees, white linen, slow-motion smiles.
A voice whispered: Create a new life and unlock your full potential.
I laughed. Then I rolled my eyes. Then, somewhere between cynicism and sadness, I felt that old sting again. The one that comes when we humans try to sell transcendence.
Years ago, I used to work at one of those places. A luxury retreat center promising miracles and rebirth.
The Cosmic Joke
Separation, lack of trust, lack of compassion, and lack of individuated education. From there grow feelings like loneliness, unworthiness, and a sense of lost-ness, from which derive our modern society’s physical ailments. From these come wars, trash-filled oceans, and deforestation. When I look at this chain of cause and effect I can only come to this one conclusion: The only way out of our dilemma is the way into the heart.