THE DEEP SEATED QUEST

FOR WHAT DO WE QUEST?

Anything? Am I searching for anything, for any new attitude, experience, understanding, knowing?

Yes. What is it? Trouble answering that question? Then, that is the starting point in the Quest. Determine if you want to go somewhere, where is it? If you don’t find a place you want to go in your mind, don’t go anywhere. Stay where you are, act it out moment by moment, wait and watch, observe who you seem to be. Determine if you are content with what you find.

If you continue to sense a level of dissatisfaction, why do you feel it? If you are dissatisfied with your life, something needs adjusting to pull up some higher level of satisfaction.

The adjustment may simply be in the way you look at yourself, your perspective on you. Are you comparing yourself to others? Who? Why? Why should the appearance you think you see of other people influence your view of yourself? No comparison is forced upon you. You chose it. Why?

First, look not at other people for who they seem to be, or what they seem to do. Look first at yourself. Are you seeing yourself accurately, objectively? Probably not.

We all seem to have unconscious biases that tilt our perception of ourselves one way or another. Our biases begin forming in our childhood. They take up home in our unconscious minds, and pretend to be reality.

How do we access those biases? Not easy. The unconscious mind can be a tough nut to crack.