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Escaping from yourself...
We all know that when we are stressed, tired, angry, upset, or disturbed that
we can escape. We can leave and get relief. We can go someplace and return only if we so choose. We can get away from it all - the unyielding traffic, people we dislike, the painful pressures of life - so that we can heal, recover, refocus, and re-energize ourselves. While this is a common tendency that does provide some temporary relief, it is really just a mask. When we leave, when we choose to escape to someplace, we are experiencing something unusual because many times this choice is drastic, unplanned, and rather spontaneous. On our journey to this escape, our mind is racing. It is experiencing this escape, while at the same time clouding the events that led to the escape. It creates a mask of our past so that the experiences of the escape can be filled. But ultimately, the mask is merely a temporary blur, since when we return back from our escape, the memories, the pain, the problem we left has not been erased at all. So, then we again fall into the cycle of dealing with our current circumstances, and keep hoping for another temporary escape in the times ahead. But, what we have forgotten to realize is that the external causes of our pain, our anguish, our discontent can never entirely be escaped. Something unnerving seems to always prod our mind.
What if you have been working on something for very long, and the success you have been seeking is finally yours, but now you no longer have someone to share it with? What if you fall in love at first sight, but then learn that the person you saw is actually blind and did not notice you at all? Life is full of such surprises. There always seems to be an obstacle to overcome, a struggle to be conquered, some conflict to get past. The mind just feeds off of this conflict and it is an aging battle. So then naturally, we want to escape it. But, while we can achieve some temporary relief by getting away from our circumstances, if in truth, our mind is the real source of all our conflict, then how can we escape from it? Where can you go?
Where can you go to escape from yourself??
Right now, I can only see one place...You go within...
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