Embracing uncertainty in our STRANGE NEW WORLD. PART 3

It’s a fact that, even if we are facing the challenges ahead collectively as a species, and even if the fundamental conditions of our existence are the same for everyone, we are all ultimately on our personal journeys. I have my own experiences and I try to make sense of them to the best of my ability, but it’s clear that we all draw very different conclusions about what is right and wrong, true and false. 

For me, I guess that it really comes down to the choice between love or fear. Should I hesitate all the way out of fear of making mistakes along my spiritual path or do my best with what I’ve got? Should I fear that I might one day make a mistake that could lead to my ruin or try different things to see what does and does not work? I know that I want to do what’s right and avoid doing what’s wrong. In all of my fallibility and brokenness and with all of my personal problems, I try to be a good person. And I pray to God that he will show me the way. What more can I do?

At present the need to embrace uncertainty, together with the importance of present moment awareness seem to come up from different sources, without me looking into these subjects specifically. For example, I started listening to a YouTuber named Aaron Doughty again just a couple of hours after I had been thinking about these things. I haven’t listened to him for a while. He talked about exactly this - the need to embrace uncertainty and how bringing awareness into different aspects of life is the biggest factor if we want to change things. 

I have learned that when I think about something, and encounter information about it shortly after, there is usually something to it.

So, maybe it’s time to choose what to listen to as well. Because memory and perception are very selective. This means that if we perceive the world from a place of fear, we will find more fearful things in it and we will remember more fearful things. And if we perceive the world from a place of love, we will find more expressions of love in it and we will remember more of those things. This is simply how our perception works. 

To conclude: I believe that at the heart of the Bible is the radical love message. This is something that is hard enough to follow. If I observe my thoughts, words and actions, I find so many ways that I fall short of it on a daily basis. So maybe this is where I need to start, keep on doing the spiritual practices that give me results and seem to make my life better and not worry so much about whether they are right or wrong. Maybe have a little faith in that if I need to change certain things, this will be clear to me eventually, instead of letting the fearful thoughts of others get to me. Because I have enough to deal with when it comes to areas of my life where I know that I need to be better. If I constantly worry about this or that thing, that cannot be proven anyway, I will have less energy left for those areas.

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