Life can be seen as an act of research. While researching into the world, we start to configure who we are. Looking for someone else, discovering yourself in a unattainable search. Is it waste of time or is it life as normally life is supposed to be? An inner search hidden in the shape of an outer search, a search for the OTHER? If the OTHER does not exist, it does not matter, we must invent one to make sense of our own existence. I wonder whether consciousness is not more no less than the idea of an additional dimension of existence. It is me as I am (the inaccessible me) and me as I am perceived, acknowledged by others, which creates my own 'consciousness' of myself, as I am as an image that can be shaped and re-shaped.
Dear Emanuela
Interesting question as ever dear Emanuela. This is one interpretation of the quote that I very much like:
""The One you are looking for is the One who is looking" So wrote St Francis of Assisi. I find this reassuring during those periods when I feel that I am not sure where I am going, or what the point is. Those times when you feel that you have lost your way a little bit, or when you don't like yourself very much; when you start being hard on yourself or when you feel like giving up; when you have lost your clarity or you just feel low on energy. Whatever your particular way of getting lost is.
What I think he means is that what you are looking for is already there; the peace of mind that you seek is within you. It is not so much a finding of it, but a letting go of all the stuff that lies between you and it.
Here's how Rumi put it: "This longing you express is the return message." In other words, your longing, your seeking for truth, your understanding that there is something else, is your answer; it is your calling. Erich Schiffman writes: "The solution to anything is to slide into a feeling of peace instead of thrashing around to find the answer ... When you experience your essence, you will feel this natural lovingness within yourself without having to do anything"
When we take these teachings (from those much wiser than us) to heart, what we realise is this: that we don't have to keep running so fast - either towards the things that we hope will prove our worth (to ourselves; to others) or away from the truth of who we really are and what we really need and want from this life. Most of all, we don't need to waste energy on being who we are not; we should only work to reveal the beautiful truth of who we already are. It takes courage to trust that you are already enough. It takes faith to believe the path is rising to meet you. Are you brave enough to let the world know exactly who you are and to trust that that which you are seeking is seeking you right back?"-Sarah Raspin.
Dear Emanuela
Interesting question as ever dear Emanuela. This is one interpretation of the quote that I very much like:
""The One you are looking for is the One who is looking" So wrote St Francis of Assisi. I find this reassuring during those periods when I feel that I am not sure where I am going, or what the point is. Those times when you feel that you have lost your way a little bit, or when you don't like yourself very much; when you start being hard on yourself or when you feel like giving up; when you have lost your clarity or you just feel low on energy. Whatever your particular way of getting lost is.
What I think he means is that what you are looking for is already there; the peace of mind that you seek is within you. It is not so much a finding of it, but a letting go of all the stuff that lies between you and it.
Here's how Rumi put it: "This longing you express is the return message." In other words, your longing, your seeking for truth, your understanding that there is something else, is your answer; it is your calling. Erich Schiffman writes: "The solution to anything is to slide into a feeling of peace instead of thrashing around to find the answer ... When you experience your essence, you will feel this natural lovingness within yourself without having to do anything"
When we take these teachings (from those much wiser than us) to heart, what we realise is this: that we don't have to keep running so fast - either towards the things that we hope will prove our worth (to ourselves; to others) or away from the truth of who we really are and what we really need and want from this life. Most of all, we don't need to waste energy on being who we are not; we should only work to reveal the beautiful truth of who we already are. It takes courage to trust that you are already enough. It takes faith to believe the path is rising to meet you. Are you brave enough to let the world know exactly who you are and to trust that that which you are seeking is seeking you right back?"-Sarah Raspin.
The self is one who is at least always present; it may or may not be always looking, an external agent may or may not be always looking. Between the self and the external agent there are then 4 possible combinations....
1)not looking/not looking
2)looking/not looking
3)not looking/ looking
4)looking/looking
I think the hands of sedition are owned by a hand that looks more or most of the time. Sedition requires a seditioner and a relation in witness to mutually enact a distortion of the premises of legal authority, or the truth or invent a truth if a truth has yet been contained.. I think case 4 is the situation that is most violatile; two agents, always watching are most aware of the details of the history of events, if predisposed may lie or be deceived by one with strong incentive and perspective to do so.
Woody Allen, the American comedian, claimed that he couldn't stand to be in a room full of people unless he could hear someone laughing, wouldn't join any groups that would have him as a member.
Marvin, I'm pretty sure that last quote is from Groucho Marx. Meaning of this quote: Since it is attributed to St. Francis I believe it must speak of "prevenient grace". Specifically, before I go looking for God in earnest God must first work in my life and set me to "looking" for Him.
Bill : I was under the impression that Woody Allen originated the quotes because I felt certain that was where I heard them used....but it appears that Groucho Marx is the wit behind them. Thanks for pointing this out.
In my oppinion it means that once you started looking for an answer or something, this indicates that that certain "one" or "thing" is waiting for you to look for it and to discover and investigate it........
The meaning could be that before every problem is posed, there is a solution which may or may not be pbvious
Ramani.S.Dr
We tend to forget that among who is looking, history, history beyond ourselves, preceeding, is always looking and is what we are always looking for, is within-unfound we have a world of abstracted identies and a lack of real substance from our searches.
"The one you are looking for is the one who is looking." This aphorism has the same meaning as the following ones:
One of the proverbs of the External Temple of Luxor is "The body is the house of God." That is why it is said: "Man, know thyself"
In the Internal Temple of Luxor, one of the many proverbs is : "Man, know thyself, and you are going to know the gods".
The Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi .
Almost every one of the 7.2 billion people on earth is fundamentally restless, searching for peace, happiness, or fulfillment. Our restlessness and searching is based on a mental and physical state of limitation. Our mental state of limitation is a combination of fear/avoidance and desire/searching within a perceived universe of mind, body, and world, all based on matter, energy, space/location, and time/persistence. It's a model created in our mind by our early experiences; it's not reality itself. Our physical state of limitation is maintained by stresses stored in the nervous system (the nature of this process is described at www.nsrusa.org/about-stress.php).
When we take our mind seriously, which means when we listen to our mind, we are consistently misled. We believe that objects, events, and phenomena are reality, when actually they are only the temporary and changeable aspects of our concept of life.
The true reality is not transient, ever-changing, or limited. The true reality is the Self, our true nature as Awareness, pure consciousness. This Self does not change. It does not think. It does not fear or desire. It is stable, mature, and consists of peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
That which is fulfilled does not search. It is content, and the source of all intelligence, creativity, and good.
No matter how unhappy we may be, how disturbed, how much we are longing for something (we know not what), or in flight from something (we know not what), our true nature is there, underneath it all, Absolute in nature, the goal of all our searching.
The only thing that keeps us searching is our searching. The whole thing is a delusion.
Finding our true Self inside is simplicity itself, since we are already able to be aware of our own Awareness. That Awareness is the Self.
What we search for, whether a glorified relationship, a drug that provides release, or whatever, is a pure distraction from the fulfillment of knowing or recognizing the Self in all its true glory. We know that we are looking, but we don't really know who we are, the one who is looking.
It is easy to drop that habit of looking outward, and instantly to see ourself: just be aware of being aware. Spend some time with this process, so simple that it is not even a technique, and get more familiar with the Self. This is a fast path to freedom, liberation, and fulfillment.
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