“Life on a regular basis distracts our consideration and we don’t even have time to note from what precisely.” ~ Franz Kafka
If there may be one factor the world is absolutely good at, that’s distracting us from the issues which can be really worthwhile and important in life. The world retains you occupied, however by no means really happy; all the time striving, however by no means arriving – to an precise fulfilling and loving place.
And once you’re all the time busy with doing extra and wanting extra – of the belongings you don’t really want, however can’t get sufficient of – likelihood is that you’ll have little, to no vitality left to concentrate to what’s actually taking place – proper earlier than your eyes.
39 Issues We Don’t Pay Sufficient Consideration To, However We Ought to
1. How we really feel deep down inside
Once we are alone, but additionally after we are with different folks. Once we are at work, and after we are away from work. Once we stroll into the world, but additionally after we retreat from the world. Once we comply with the crowds blindly, and after we select to face on our personal.
2. How we’re all the time occupied
However by no means really happy. All the time busy, working from one place to a different, from one job to a different, and by no means feeling like we have now finished sufficient.
3. How little we stay for ourselves
And the way a lot of our lives is wasted on residing for others.
4. How afraid we’re to face for Fact
And level out the issues which can be so terribly incorrect with the world.
5. How we’re all the time striving
However by no means arriving – to an precise fulfilling and peaceable place.
6. How drained we have now change into
Of ourselves and of the entire world.
7. How little we predict for ourselves
And the way a lot of our considering is definitely finished by others.
8. How a lot we care about others
What they assume, say, really feel and do; what they anticipate and need from us. And the way little focus, love and a focus we place on the issues we anticipate and need for ourselves.
9. How a lot we speak about authenticity
And the way unauthentic most of us truly are.
10. How little worth we place on ourselves
And the way a lot worth we place on others.
11. How laborious we work for our cash
And the way simply we waste it away.
12. How far-off we have now stepped from the Important
And the way preoccupied we’re with issues that don’t actually matter.
13. How linked we appear to be nearly
And the way disconnected we’re from the entire world.
14. How a lot we obsess about our wants
And the way little we care concerning the wants of others.
15. How small and insignificant we predict we’re
And the way the giants we see ‘on the market’ all the time appear far higher and way more highly effective than we ourselves are.
16. How little we love
Ourselves and people round us. And the way a lot we choose, concern, hate, assault and condemn – not solely ourselves, however everybody round us additionally.
17. How a lot we assume
And the way little we really feel.
18. How divided we have now change into
From each other and our true selves. And the way little we keep in mind concerning the Unity and Oneness of all of it.
19. How a lot info there may be out there to us
And the way little knowledge.
20. How a lot we speak about our dreadful previous
And the way little we deal with constructing a brighter and higher future.
21. How simple we purchase into this concept that we ‘want’ each little factor ‘they’ promote
Regardless of the value, and whether or not we really want it or not. And the way simply we throw our cash at them.
22. How little respect we have now for our elders
And the way we have a look at them as in the event that they have already got served their goal and we don’t want them anymore.
23. How disconnected we’re from our our bodies
And the way little consideration we pay to the various alerts despatched to us each day – within the type of anger, tiredness, unease and illness.
24. How accustomed we have now change into to noise
And the way allergic we’re to stillness and silence.
25. How obsessed we’re with outward appearances
And the way little consideration we pay to our interior worlds.
26. How little honesty we apply
With ourselves and people round us. And the way offended we get when others are doing the identical.
27. How typically youngsters are disregarded
And handled as if they’re clueless little creatures who’ve completely nothing to show.
28. How offended we’re by each little factor
And the way offended we get each time somebody dares to face up and inform a unique story than our personal.
29. How determined we’re in attempting to flee ourselves
And the way we might do absolutely anything to numb ourselves and never must really feel the excruciating ache and vacancy that’s current beneath all of it.
30. How a lot ugliness is created each day
In artwork, science, structure, style, enterprise, music and so forth. And the way a lot of it’s perceived as ‘modern creations’, ‘genius’, ‘genuine expression’, and ‘artwork’.
31. How poorly moms are handled
And the way society has turned its again on them.
32. How youngsters and younger adults are closely exploited
And made to assume they’re those in management – of their very own ideas, actions, decisions and lives.
33. How little we take pleasure in life and residing
And the way a lot of it we waste worrying, planning, fearing, judging, blaming, hating and complaining about all of it.
34. How obsessed we’re with the materiality of issues
And the way little worth and a focus we place on our spirituality.
35. How hooked we’re on know-how
And the way disconnected we’re from ourselves and the entire world.
36. How males and ladies have turned towards one another
As a substitute of realizing they’re on this collectively – One with one another, and a part of the identical Nice Complete.
37. How little consideration we pay to our household, buddies and family members
And the way we all the time must are inclined to extra ‘pressing’ issues and deal with issues which can be far higher and way more ‘vital’ than them.
38. How busy we’re with speaking and speaking – about ourselves and all the pieces that’s occurring in our worlds
And the way we fail to cease and really hear to what’s occurring in different folks’s hearts and worlds.
39. How there may be One Energy inside us
Far higher than all of the forces of the skin world.
Now, are you able to cease? Are you able to cease and actually concentrate? Are you able to take note of what’s taking place in your physique, thoughts, coronary heart and world so that you just gained’t threat losing your life chasing a mirage, solely to achieve the top of your life and say with Ivan Illyich, in Leo Tolstoy’s The Dying of Ivan Illyich, “What if my complete life has been incorrect?”
All the time keep in mind: Your consideration is extremely worthwhile and important on your progress, happiness, well being and wellbeing. And you need to treasure it in any respect prices! It doesn’t matter what occurs, you need to not give it away to issues that lead you nowhere good.