Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance. If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe. - Carlos Castaneda
We humans are such funny creatures. Most of us spend our adult life trying to prove something & most of the time we're trying to prove we're valuable. However, if your value is in the hands of others then you are giving up a great deal of your power. At some point you begin to live your life from an internal space and this space begins to open up another world. Here's the interesting bit of all of this: to accept & acknowledge your inherent importance you must give up the idea of being important. The more you struggle to feel important in the world and the more you demand others see you as important you miss the mark. You don't have to do anything to be important because you already are. And any attempt to further your importance will begin to undermine the confidence that comes with knowing you already are important.
Very nice Lora! Quote from our novel: “No, not important. Nothing is important. Nothing in universe is important. In Life, nothing is important, there is only oh, beautiful, or oh, I Love you, or oh, make me true joy. Man say, oh, my people, my people, very important. He is monkey. All of the mans are monkeys. People say serious, people say important. They think
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