WHAT IS MY GREATEST DROP OF WISDOM

some person asked me this question a couple of weeks ago. This question unsettled me for a moment, but this tension melted away, and an idea sprang up like a mirage in a desert; but a mirage is about fullfillment, and not as revealing as a dream. So perhaps the idea came to me like a mirage in a dream. I have expressed this idea in this aphorism, see the third paragraph (in italics):

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Cramped up and bottled up in life’s little games.- One desires a space to unite fragments: to move away from the idea of coming closer or further from things. One needs to be in all things and outside of all things – one exists relative to nothing.

Passion is the need of the spirit to move, it is the need to exist in a real way. Thus one asks why am I wrong, not why others are wrong – one affirms oneself without trickery – one is true to one’s spirit: and not drowned by the critical nature of things.

One absorbs, but one does not become a sponge. One reflects but does not become a mirror. One does not become a path of difficulty for others. Everything is simply as it is, one throws everything into the air without the desire for all things to descend into the right place, and one trusts the throwing of things into the air, nothing more and nothing less.

When one’s hands are tied to one’s back one carves one’s way. One can be too happy to be original in life. Thus what is living? I did notice a picture of a fashion model that appeared to come out of the page, she is living! So living is different for different people because they are different, what is living for one person may not be living to another person. To others, different things or places matter in life – it may not be about originality, or cutting a path through stone. Thus life connects to our essence, and the process is living. Though living is not the expression of the essence, for the process of life is not an artistic technique.