What if we valued people for their wisdom, the awareness they had accumulated, their inner strength and peace? What if we celebrated what they contribute by devoting themselves to their inner journey?
Western societies don’t do that. They honour outer stories; stories they can see. There’s no understanding of how vital it is to undertake inner work. People who make masterful inner progress can end up seeing themselves as failures and rejects - as they are from this outer judging perspective!
We need to start an association which honours and prizes the inner journey, takes it out of the domain of mental health, psychology and religion, and restores it as the sustaining factor of everyone's life.
We need to bring our children up to find the doorways and pathways to wisdom within; to be comfortable inhabiting these places.
I would love to live in a world which encouraged contemplation, learning from life and deeply honouring our inner discoveries!
Thursday, 25 November 2010
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