Burden of self

Koran

Imagine if you will, that things are not what they seem

And that though you are yourself, you are everyone else as well. As they are you

That all our many differences are actually what make us all the same

You live within your own mind, but your mind is not as much yours as you would think

You are limited to who you are, by how you perceive who “you” are. If your named self is all that you know, then that is all you can be

“If it doesn’t become what it can be, then all it will be is what it is”

Memory is a pathway to past, present and future, though it’s binds itself to how we perceive time. Who we were in reflection, measures to who we can become

Hence you become nothing more than “your” possibilities. The named self is as much a limitation as it is a liberation, when it comes to knowing the limits and possibilities of self

“Tomorrow measured by yesterday becomes a loop destined to repeat itself”

All our hopes and dreams then carry with them a “burden of self”. We dream of a life – to escape the one we have. All of our hopes – are towards more than we have

We define what we can be, by what is not, and what we are not

We do not look to be more than ourselves, and so it never comes

You have to know more than yourself, in order to find yourself

Then, though you may end up endlessly chasing your tail, it is not just to be better than you are, but to find what you have lost

It’s application in empowering you to be more than you are doesn’t just open all the doors for you though. It is as much transcendental as it is ascendant

To go beyond yourself can also be to lose yourself

Like with most things in life, the total gain usually ends up being about sum of that which it cost

Which is why perspective is the most important part of understanding to-self. Not to make you better, but to find a better you

If nothing is risked, then even less is earned

But if you risk all, then you could gain everything. The difference between what you stand to gain and what you could lose, lies within why it is being sought

If you seek things for the right reasons, then you cannot lose, though you may end up left with nothing. “Too lose all for the right reasons, is to feed the soul what money cannot buy”

Nothing that could ever be known to us, means more to a sore heart, than knowing it gave all that it could

Even if it means nothing to anyone but yourself, knowing you gave all you could, for the right reasons, makes the “burden of self” become lighter than the shoulders which carry it

Samuel Gregory Korn 

22:11 - 02/10/2018

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia