“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.” “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times . ~ C.G. Jung Surely, the search for, and the acquisition of meaning is our highest spiritual calling. The driving force behind every action, and interaction is this quest for meaning. When this drive is unconscious, we search for meaning in all the wrong places. Often, externally - in what we do, and do not do, in who were with, and not with, in fame/recognition, in material success. Meaning here is tiny, and unstable compared to meaning that can be found in the spaciousness of mere being, of our mere being. Who we are is more vast and expansive than what we do, and does not shift, nor does it need validation. Simplify, and expand your gaze. You are life, itself. Energy, itself. See how profound it is to exist. Let everything else fall away. Where everything and nothing meet, sits meaning.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:11:51 +0000
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