The intimate journey

Inspiration. A natural ability for all of us, creative beings, to see beyond, especially from a deeper look, more "inward". Creativity is related to the ability to make associations, deconstruct models and build new ones, in that order, in any field of human activity. Pride is an obstacle, a veil that prevents clear vision and hinders proper interpretation, free of pre-judgments, which in turn imprisons the individual in illusions. Wisdom, on the other hand, feeds and frees.

A partial, incomplete reality. Thus, the human being interprets life, under the analysis of facts and things or people from his mental capacity, his emotional state and the accumulation of lived experiences. This peculiar way of looking at life is only part of reality. It is necessary to admit this to avoid conflicts and illusions of the order “I am with the truth, you are not”, as if this were possible.

This is a natural dynamic in human life. However, when associated with the manifestation of pride, an aggravating factor in relationships as a whole is established. This is because for interpretation in the shadow of pride, it is enough that there is imagination and supposition, abstaining from feeling. Pride imposes the use of masks that inhibit naturalness, originality, sincerity or creativity itself, because building a facet becomes more important than living, valuing or honing the feelings of the inner universe.

Searching for the discernment between sensation and perception is one of the fundamental bases to considerably reduce the levels of pride with which the person travels through his evolutionary journey. While the first is related to the effect caused by stimuli that reach the sense organs, the second refers to the interpretation and understanding of these effects, associated with the feelings generated.

Perception can bring clarifications about what is going on in the inner world of each human being. In a poetic tone, “listening to the voice of the heart” is a salutary attitude on the way to an encounter with oneself. To seek the very essence is to seek the divinity of Creation reflected within.
The mind becomes more lucid and free as daily self-awareness exercises intensify. That freedom is that which melts the shackles of selfish thoughts and convictions, breaks down the walls and walls of pride, and opens the window of illusions.

Some theorists say that "it is never too late to be who you want to be". It is important to note that the evolutionary journey takes place from the inside out. Being who you want to be becomes a profoundly concrete goal when you want to be yourself, that is, to go beyond the surface of what you believe to be and “see more within yourself”, releasing the hidden essence, just like the look and Michelangelo's perception of the marble block, from where he “removed the excess stone that imprisoned David”.

There is, therefore, a long way to reach the core of yourself, a divine being, with its own light. Time, however, is directly proportional to the speed with which there is enough inspiration to realize the possibilities of cognitive associations for the intimate analysis that life offers each dawn.

[art: "inner light"by Bruce Rolff]