A Sequel to ‘Our Home – the Wider Consciousness’: Two Case Studies

A Sequel to ‘Our Home – the Wider Consciousness’: Two Case Studies

To be in the Driver Seat of One's Life

Henry David Thoreau, known as the Sage of the Walden Pond, has made many insightful remarks about life.  A philosopher in his own right, he led a life of solitude and wrote on many issues.  The following lines are taken from one of his essays.  Careful reflection on those can help us in our endeavor to lead a vibrant life.

 "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.  He will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.  In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,...if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be,....now put the foundation under them !  Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn."

Setting goals to guide us in life

The vast majority of people on this planet function as if they are mounted on a machine over which they have no control.  The psychological fabric of society captures people and they get driven by it like the soccer ball in the field.  Unknowingly, they get influenced by the idea that competition and the rat-race form the right way to live.  Once given over to it, it has strangle hold on the unwary people; the slavery sustains them to the point of  callously inflicting injury on others, not realizing that they have to face it in their turn.  Thus, the society is constantly in conflict keeping its citizens submerged in a sea of unhappiness.  Some people, however, become aware of this and begin to steer clear of the crowd metaphorically – and perhaps literally too!  They focus their life energies on short term and long term goals so that they lead a well ordered and useful life. In that very process, they create an atmosphere of well being in which they show an overall and holistic care of others and oneself.  These are the people who are going to bring about a different world - a world of caring human beings who do not indulge in cut-throat competition in the name of ‘survival of the fittest’ which is currently the driving force for most people.

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