Reasons Not to Worry by Delaney Brigid;Charlton Andrew;

Author:Delaney, Brigid;Charlton, Andrew;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Let life unfold

Being aware of reality means not crowding or loading up our perception with personal issues, wants, desires, stories, group identities and grievances—instead letting life just unfold and taking stock of it via our reason.

That is not what happens to most of us. Reality unfolds but gets stuck. We load it up with our judgements; we have a powerful subconscious influencing our thoughts and actions; we have memories and triggers; we have desires or want more from the present moment than it is providing; we have reactions, projections, and old sore spots that get triggered.

We create a story around things or people—and it is the story, not the thing itself, which creates our disturbances or our desires. Said Seneca: ‘It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.’

This ‘false conception’ that Seneca spoke of is the story we carry around in our head. Or as Irish poet W.B. Yeats put it in ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, ‘It was the dream itself enchanted me.’ This story, this dream or this enchantment wouldn’t pass any test of reason. It’s a fantasy. Marcus Aurelius wrote, ‘Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realise that only dreams were troubling you, view this “reality” as you view your dreams.’

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