JANUARY 27, 2023 THINK ABOUT IT untitled billy hill writer there are times in individuals' lives where things make sense. a certain familiar sense of simplicity, we allow ourselves to return with from time to time — where the truth speaks with us. when we collect ourselves we can begin to notice how things are, beyond how we think about life. when we withdraw from fleeting thoughts and silly identifications, and move into our purpose — the soul of our being — and connect with our inner person — the voice of wisdom in life — we remember who we are and where our life’s work has been this entire time, still. in the bigger picture, the small details of existence appear self-evident. like all those options we just realized were always here, in this very moment. it has been stated that most of human psychology is a dance of relating self to others as a strategy of self organization. as one wonders about what is beyond the borders of the known, eventually a clear picture emerges within the same truth we are. plato’s cave analogy, the story of captives who, restrained in a cave to near complete darkness and oblivion, save through the shifting glimmer of a partial ray of sunlight that casts semi silhouettes of the hostages themselves. from the point of view dependent on desperate grasping at truth, the same truth in the described scenario; displaced circumstantially, the cave dwellers assume that their relative awareness is all there is in existence in the universe (a so-called optical illusion of the self). plato further illustrates, through this tale, with the additional twist of philosophy: if one of the cave’s victims of fate were to manage an escape and release from their indentured servitude to the ignore-ance of wholeness in the cave’s obscurity and set free to learn the greater world they are a part of, their past ignoring the rest of life would become irrelevant. the freed individual would take their place in the greater life they are part of, in direct sunlight for the first time to see the world first person. if, plato continues, the free person were to, after exploring their world, return to the cave to report to the others of the greater existence of life they’d been deprived of, the captives would disbelieve, perhaps ridicule and probably resent the messenger due to their condition. through which the messenger must be forced to the solitary return, to beyond the cave. modern day life has inspired a new lens to add to the allegory of the cave: plato’s cell phone. that nowadays a lot of folks forget to look past the screen on their palm to see to the rest of the world they seek to know. the antidote to the situation is an old one; empower ourselves to enjoy where we are whether thick or thin. the way things are in this moment is what our lives are like, actually. being able to find our balance with the universe as it GROUNDCOVER NEWS 11 happens is how growth teaches us who we are. to be able to enjoy ourselves both is an asset and an ability and the enthusiasm is contagious. it brings us back to ourselves.
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