“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S Elliot
With each new information, each book you read, each experience, there is something in you that is growing your level of understanding is growing.
Perception is changing, you start seeing things differently. The world in front of you changes with that.
How things turn to be better or worse is due to your own personal perception. You and you alone are responsible for what you are feeling.
Reading the same book twice, the first time it seem interesting, but try reading it after 1 year, and see now how many things you have neglected, how is it possible that the same book, had more messages than you were prepared to see before? that the writer was passing a message a lot deeper that you where expecting? and you missed that before…
The same thing is happening in life, improving your understanding and perception, this world transforms also.
“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”
“We don t see things as they are, we see things as we are”
Heaven for me is not a place, is an idea, that you have the power to transform everything you want around you, but first you have to have a “transformation” inside.
That you can break a pattern of thoughts that have built since you were born until today, and re-pattern them. Changing what was “a bad” experience in “a needed” experience for you to grow and to become who you are today. To see that every little choice or action took you here, in this present moment, for you to have an understanding and the necessary intelligence for you to enjoy this experience.
That everything has a meaning. When you see someone argue in the street, your mind goes for compassion that you reject that kind of behavior between two people, when you see two birds building a nest, you figure that you love the idea of commitment. And the list goes on.
For me bringing awareness in your life, on your action comes with practice. And it may start with yoga, since for me this is what brought me to the understanding of many things. But even Asanas- yoga postures, the physical aspect of yoga, are just the beginning, just another step towards something else.
It like going to a restaurant, the waiter is bringing you your order to the table and you start eating.
Or he comes to the table, giving you information about how the food was cooked, what spices are inside, and how the order of the spices while cooking is essential. The fact that the vegetables come from a village nearby, from a family of passionate field workers. And what kind of drink is preferable to have, so it can wash your taste buds so each new mouth feels like the first. And the fact that you are not only eating for your mind J but what kind of nutrition facts are in the meal.
Life has just more meaning, when you make your first steps from ignorance to understanding.