The comfort and nostalgia
of the apparent past
we once knew
does not exist anymore
but in the echoes —
the reverberations —
of the subjective experiences
of a phenomena
we call
“memory.”
But, we can not go back.
We can not live ‘there’ anymore —
(wherever ‘there’ is...)
for
you
are
here...
You
are
now.
And if we continually choose
to allow our self
to tarry —
to linger —
to languish —
before the looking glass
of the past —
mesmerized and beguiled —
scrying into the distorted, variegated shards
of a fractured mirror —
fixated —
intoxicated —
like the Greek mythological hunter
Narcissus 1 —
lost in nostalgic reverie —
or if we project our consciousness
into a simulation —
a simulacrum —
a phantasmagorium —
a fallacious fantasy —
a virtual reality —
of some imagined future —
we will come to experience
our sense of self
as but a mere shadow
of
our
True
Self
—
a
ghost —
a nowhere man
living in a nowhere land
making all our nowhere plans
for
nobody. 2
So, why not accept your self
just
as
you
are?
Right here.
Right now.
Fully awake.
Fully alive.
Fully human.
Fully divine.
Love
your
Self
just as you are.
Then perhaps...
just perhaps...
slowly, slowly...
you might just begin to learn
to accept Other Manifestations of Self —
Other Expressions of Life —
just as they are as well —
love your brother and sister
just as they are.
From there...
who knows?
Perhaps you might even begin to learn
to accept the world as it is —
love
Life
just
as
it
is.
Nothing missing.
Nothing broken.
Perfect
peace.
Not two.
/|\
1. Narcissus is a character from the Greek mythological tale, in which, a hunter stoops down to take a drink of water from a fresh spring pool, and becomes enchanted, beguiled, and fixated with the reflection of his own apparent image.
Lost in reverie and overcome by pain, anguish, suffering and inner conflict, he languishes and withers on the banks of the pool. His body is then transformed into a flower.
The word ‘narcissus’ is connected with a word common in modern English vernacular, ‘narcissist,’ both of which have etymological roots in the Latin word ‘nárkē’ which means intoxicated, infatuated, or entranced, which can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European word nárkǎ, which means distorted, twisted, perverted. This is also the root of the English word narcotic.
2. The song Nowhere Man was written by John Lennon and appeared on The Beatles 1965 recording, entitled Rubber Soul and also the 1966 release, entitled Yesterday and Today
