The Evolution of Intent

Every idea wants to manifest a vision - the one that paints a dream of great things destined for you, the one that wants to see a world with less poison and more beauty, as well as the one that convinces you of your impotence in the grand scheme of things. And ideas are constantly trying to sell you different things. Some appeal to the desire in you of beautiful and marvelous things, irrational as they might seem, and some appeal to your fears of safety and rationality, promising you grand successes without having to incur major losses. And each idea presents itself with a coterie of feelings in the body. Feelings and sensations allow you to experience the embodiment of a vision - something that you associate with reality much more than the ideas themselves. And when you have lived with the dominance of a set of ideas long enough, you start believing in them so much, you can't even tell the difference if there is anyone else inside other than the gestalt of all the things you believe in.

And yet there is someone inside, often locked up, wondering like a little child looking up at the stars, wondering where we come from, where are we going, why are we here... wondering if there is any meaning to life, wondering what this world is about, wondering what is true, and what is unreal, wondering what to do with your time on earth and what will happen when you are gone. More often, however, the wondering is about more immediate things - will this relationship work out, how do I have more sex and adventure in my life, how do I find the right job, how do I make more money for retirement,... and the like.

Every little thing is a world in itself

The thing is... tackling difficulties in the realm of the immediate, without simultaneously opening up to a larger vision of your soul peters out after a while. When you are on a long journey, you might amuse yourself with different things, but you never forget where you are going, and that gives an overall arch, a background to everything. So, what is the overall direction of your soul, your innermost being? When you start taking stock of the conversations you have with that part of yourself, you will find things uprighting themselves and falling in place, because your soul is the seat of your power.