ENDLESS EFFORTING

(c) 2011 Howard McQueen

There is endless investigating,

endless searching and seeking,

endless manipulating

in order to shape circumstances that create and sustain happiness.

There is endless efforting to try to scrub clean (or eradicate)

what we refer to as the ego and all of its bruises and wounds.

Why not drop all this stress-induced restlessness

and no longer make any attempts to personalize experiences.

In our lifetime we will (and already have) 

experienced radical tipping points that

have shaken and cracked the conceptional foundations

in our economic, political, defense and other mind-of-man 

made structures.

If your well-being (i.e. identity, sense-of-self) are interwoven

into believing and trusting in these structures, 

right now would seem to be the opportune time to reassess your identity.

In a not so subtle way, what you identify with is what you believe in, is what your identity and sense of self are constructed upon.

So, a reassessment may appeal to you.

But lets be sure that this is not cosmetic,

that a reassessment of identity is not some easy, interim step,

or some lengthy, progressive process of gradual, measurable transformation.

Why not just uncover what you really are, during this life, in this moment.

GO FOR THE WHOLE ENCHILADA!

Even words contain a seductiveness. 

Remember to dispense with them or the wild goose chase becomes an endless mental fascination, and endless bouts with suffering.