Yo. Hola. Yola.
The name is Morgan and the game is growing up.
This is my blog.
And this is an invisible high five:
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Water from clouds
Today was one of those days where I worked really hard but felt underappreciated, underpaid, and.. well, underdressed because I was cold and wore a hoodie over my shirt. It wasn’t my finest representation. But when I walked outside after work, and it was unexpectedly raining, I was the one with the hood and those that I passed by looked envious. And so I won.
It’s the small victories that keep you going. Or at least dry.
The Joy of Quiet
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
THE ANGRY THERAPIST: The Power of Purpose
What if I told you that your life is bigger than you? That you are meant to do / change something. Just humor me. Close your eyes and believe for this second that you were meant to change the world in some way. What happens? If you truly believe this, you will feel valuable. Suddenly, your “problems” aren’t so big. Why? You have just turned your dial from taking to giving mode. Turn it back. Instantly your chest concaves as all the worries come flooding back, the unpaid bills, the relationship problems, everything that’s going wrong, everything you wish you had. Now you’re in taking mode, aka obsessing about the future and / or dwelling on the past. You feel the difference? The difference is PURPOSE.
If you believe you have a purpose, your life becomes greater than you. This process allows you to live outside of self. Living inside of self is what causes us to be unhappy because we internalize, scrutinize, worry, predict, prejudge, label, live in the land of what ifs instead of what is.
So you have a choice.
Believe that you have no purpose and be miserable as I was most of my life.
Or
Believe that you do have a purpose and live.
So how does one discover their purpose?
First, accept yourself fully. This includes where you are in your life, your defects, your story. Everything that is you, your problems, your relationships, your insecurities. This process forces you to be honest with yourself. Honesty with self begins a process of rediscovery. You realize what is the false version of you - Pseudo and what is the true version of you - Solid. As you become more solid, you begin to unlock your code. Seeking approval / validation / and false beliefs about yourself has strapped an iron chain around your soul. By living in Solid Self you will begin to unlock that chain. Through this process you will slowly realize what you are good at, what you love, what your gifts are. The more you do this, the more you will believe you have value, that you deserve things, like healthy love. Once you believe you have value and what that value is, you will have purpose.
But it all starts with
Transparency.
Most people can not be transparent because it requires a tremendous amount of courage, which is why most people don’t discover their purpose, which is why most people are unhappy.
How many people do you know live / have lived in Solid Self, without a veneer, do not seek any approval or validation and live purely in their truth? Jesus? Gandhi? Okay, we can’t compare ourselves to them, especially in the world we live in.
So then how many people do you know are trying to do this, today and every day?
That is why we are so unhappy.
- Angry
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?
Friedrich Nietzsche (via quote-book)
