Roads Inward There are many ways to start your journey inward. Truth be known, I think that sooner or later pretty much every road leads inward at some point along the line. Some open the doors inward through spirituality, mysticism, or philosophy and a soul searching longing to know how life is put together. Some people begin out of necessity when they suffer from life changing events that give them shell shock and they find the only way to see it through is to travel the roads deep, deep inside. Others begin after a very close brush with death that opens their mind and spreads bare their soul. Some begin their journey inward through science when they become interested in anthropology, sociology, psychology, biology, or even physics. Most every path in science leads to introspection if you are honest enough in your objectivity and you travel far enough down the line. My journeys begin as a teenager when a couple of very gifted teachers introduced me to the world of philosophy, and to the notion that the knowledge and wisdom of Man is not confined to one single worldview, but the roads of truth are broad and many. Not long after, when I was nineteen I decided two very important things--- First, I decided that what I most wanted to do in life was learn as many things as I could no matter where it might lead me and so I let my natural curiosity begin to point the way in my life. Second, I began to call into question virtually everything I had ever been taught. As time passed, I realized Id become a collector of ideas and differing points of view. As the years quickly rolled on, although I didnt realize it at the time, through happenstance and circumstance, life was very kind to offer up just the sort to lessons I needed to learn. Soon, I discovered that the farther out into the world that you explore, the more deeply you also look within because all human perceptions about the world around us are viewed through the filters of the ideas floating around in our heads. Along the way, after I had a couple very close brushes with death by wrecking on motorcycles, my eyes were opened to the notion that every day is to be cherished, because no one knows how long theyve got on this Earth, and I learned that it wasnt enough to merely know lots of things, that knowledge is never complete until its been shared with others, so, I began to write about some of the things Id learned. Many years have now gone by and much water has passed beneath all the bridges Ive crossed. Each day, I still learn a new thing or two, and I spend much of my time writing about what Ive learned over the long years behind. I think perhaps among the most important things Ive learned is that you gotta believe in love before you can believe in most anything else at all. Dewey Dirks Friend Requests Always Welcome :)
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:34:22 +0000
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