So going back to the feather, there is another way of holding things. Isn’t life more of a mysterious, often unpredictable journey, where when we open ours eyes and look into this very moment, we must actually wonder: „Wow… how did I get here?“ And the sooner I let that often uncomfortable truth sink into the core of my very being, the sooner I might be able to see what life actually really is offering. Or you get hired for your dream job and BOOM… get fired out of the blue few weeks later, because the company tanked. People get married to their dream partner and four weeks later, it turns out he/she was sleeping with your best friend. But than, have you ever had the experience that this very thing that you thought you gained, suddenly turned into a loss? That’s great and we should enjoy our successes. Yes, I am sure many of us have studied or worked hard to get somewhere and maybe it feels like you controlled it through focus and will power, and you have been rewarded and you „got something“. If, for a brief moment, you reflect upon your life, with utmost honesty and truthfulness - when was it, that you ever had any control in the long run? When did you ever have had any control over the real important things that happened in your life (the joyful as well as the sorrowful)? And what does “control” actually mean? It’s the closed fist that will take away freedom, joy and happiness from us. We think that staying with that vulnerability, openness and honesty is too dangerous. But the truth is, we have no clue what is going to happen, we have no control either. We always yearn to have control and we like to be assured that things will go the way we want. We wish to be assured that things will be ok. It takes energy to hold a fist tightly and I will get tired at some point if I always try to make a fist like this. It’s a gesture of taking rather than giving. This fist gesture is an act of closing, not opening. That is especially true for beloved people, family, friends, relationships, as well as ideas, beliefs and concepts.īut what happens if I hold something inside a close fist? First, it takes effort to do that and second, it might take away its beauty: in this case the feather is not to be seen. That’s how we often go about things that are precious to us, that we fear to loose: we hold them tightly. But by closing my hand around it, I am making sure that the feather doesn’t get blown away. The feathers form, structure and beauty can’t shine and be seen that way. One way of holding the feather is by closing my hand around it and making a fist.
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