Bluestar
Jedi Council Member
Interestingly in on itself that I just now came across this thread. Been on this forum for 1.5 years.
First off I want to thank Ark for his journal posts, they are very insightful. And to the forumites that have posted.
Goals have always been sort of oblique for me. When I mean oblique, they are not direct in focus. Yes there were the material goals that have come and gone. A main goal for me has always been seeking knowledge. And another has been forming a contributory community. Both of these goals have ebbed and flowed in my life. The outcome has come in many forms and sometimes I walk away from the results if it did not suit my then needs. Was it a completion of that goal? No, because I still have the goal to learn and form community. It just changes as I grow. Finding this forum and the people here has developed many new goals. Diet, EE and new forms of learning.
Being of service has never been a "goal" just a way of life for me. When it comes my way, I do the best I can to help. Sometimes in the past it was not asked for and I learned, sometimes the hard way, that not everyone wants help.
Can we fully awaken to our present world? Yes there are moments of being conscious and with the work we may be having more of those waking moments. Kind of like the "Allegory of the Cave" story. Seeing that life is just a bunch of shadows on a rock wall and that reality is just behind us creating those shadows, can only be for the one who sees the facts. We can not force our fellow humans to get up off the chair facing the wall to see reality. We have to go forward alone and trust that there are others outside the cave that have seen as well. We can leave a little note though with a map or some kind of reference for those that follow. As this forum does :)
First off I want to thank Ark for his journal posts, they are very insightful. And to the forumites that have posted.
Goals have always been sort of oblique for me. When I mean oblique, they are not direct in focus. Yes there were the material goals that have come and gone. A main goal for me has always been seeking knowledge. And another has been forming a contributory community. Both of these goals have ebbed and flowed in my life. The outcome has come in many forms and sometimes I walk away from the results if it did not suit my then needs. Was it a completion of that goal? No, because I still have the goal to learn and form community. It just changes as I grow. Finding this forum and the people here has developed many new goals. Diet, EE and new forms of learning.
Being of service has never been a "goal" just a way of life for me. When it comes my way, I do the best I can to help. Sometimes in the past it was not asked for and I learned, sometimes the hard way, that not everyone wants help.
Can we fully awaken to our present world? Yes there are moments of being conscious and with the work we may be having more of those waking moments. Kind of like the "Allegory of the Cave" story. Seeing that life is just a bunch of shadows on a rock wall and that reality is just behind us creating those shadows, can only be for the one who sees the facts. We can not force our fellow humans to get up off the chair facing the wall to see reality. We have to go forward alone and trust that there are others outside the cave that have seen as well. We can leave a little note though with a map or some kind of reference for those that follow. As this forum does :)