There is a greater self worth developing, don’t listen to this unhappy self undiscovered lot.
Self development is like getting a PhD in yourself. Can you spot the difference between someone with a PhD and someone without?
It is a decades long development. Decades. A few years here, a few years there, a few years loosing your way, a few years reevaluating and restructuring your life.
You do this thing so that there is more self. A capacity expands within you, in the same way you have more capacity of mind emotion and character as an adult than as a child. So too is the difference between an ordinary person and a developed and fulfilled self.
Here’s what will come to you in time:
Your body, some minimal competent exercise (if only outdoorsy activities) and a better diet (free of junk which clouds your mind and corrupts your body.) You thought your mind would expand while your body withers? It is no small thing that these developments accompany yoga or outdoors or martial arts or something. The journey is yours, competence and self reliance is the demand.
Your mind; your capacity for awareness, internal introspection, and cognitive strategy. Taking yourself seriously is no joke. Intensive and persistent mental engagement on the issue of self is educational and developmental. The mind is like a fractal, learning to learn, learning well, and learning some specific useful thing are all separate parts of the same journey, and these affect each other.
Spirit, okay let’s call it “capacity of self”, and say one who can sit quietly in a room for fifteen minutes without compulsive distraction (self sabotage) is spiritually more sound stable and capacitive than otherwise. Is practicing your patience and inward composure for beyond ten years worth while? Hmm?
You will find emotional and intellectual support through yourself, you must combat the voices in your head and loose that obsessive sense within you that there is something more exciting and purposeful anywhere else but where you are and what you are doing. This while meaningfully restructuring life to be whatever that is supposed to be for you.
The mistake everyone is making is that they expect immediate gratification, or even direct correlation. You will see change in self capacity over time, yet it will be in years not months. You might not even care about the same things in life through this development (ambition, outside recognition/validation, meaning itself may change.)
A fulfilled self is an exalted self, not necessarily a “happy” self!
Self development is like getting a PhD in yourself. Can you spot the difference between someone with a PhD and someone without?
It is a decades long development. Decades. A few years here, a few years there, a few years loosing your way, a few years reevaluating and restructuring your life.
You do this thing so that there is more self. A capacity expands within you, in the same way you have more capacity of mind emotion and character as an adult than as a child. So too is the difference between an ordinary person and a developed and fulfilled self.
Here’s what will come to you in time:
Your body, some minimal competent exercise (if only outdoorsy activities) and a better diet (free of junk which clouds your mind and corrupts your body.) You thought your mind would expand while your body withers? It is no small thing that these developments accompany yoga or outdoors or martial arts or something. The journey is yours, competence and self reliance is the demand.
Your mind; your capacity for awareness, internal introspection, and cognitive strategy. Taking yourself seriously is no joke. Intensive and persistent mental engagement on the issue of self is educational and developmental. The mind is like a fractal, learning to learn, learning well, and learning some specific useful thing are all separate parts of the same journey, and these affect each other.
Spirit, okay let’s call it “capacity of self”, and say one who can sit quietly in a room for fifteen minutes without compulsive distraction (self sabotage) is spiritually more sound stable and capacitive than otherwise. Is practicing your patience and inward composure for beyond ten years worth while? Hmm?
You will find emotional and intellectual support through yourself, you must combat the voices in your head and loose that obsessive sense within you that there is something more exciting and purposeful anywhere else but where you are and what you are doing. This while meaningfully restructuring life to be whatever that is supposed to be for you.
The mistake everyone is making is that they expect immediate gratification, or even direct correlation. You will see change in self capacity over time, yet it will be in years not months. You might not even care about the same things in life through this development (ambition, outside recognition/validation, meaning itself may change.)
A fulfilled self is an exalted self, not necessarily a “happy” self!