{"id":46493,"date":"2022-04-07T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46493"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:21:15","slug":"gracefully-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/04\/07\/gracefully-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracefully lost."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes I think about what would be helpful for you, the reader.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things I could write about that add some value to your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explanations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pieces of advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books I\u2019ve read, podcasts I\u2019m listening to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when I go about it this way, I never come up with something that feels good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t work that way, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth of the matter is: I don\u2019t know of a single thing that changed my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have tried billions of things, sometimes for months in a row, and I have no clue which one of those was crucial or essential or decisive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you know stuff like that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I don\u2019t possess the tendency to stick to some exciting idea or habit or school forever, milking it like crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the profound notion that everything we experience is basically thoughts coming to life, creating our very personal worlds, is not always helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We still get lost, over and over again, because that is the nature of being human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We consist of ideas and projections and inner creations, and even if we know that, even if we are deeply waking up to that, it still works that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a human being, you can\u2019t escape being a human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes that seems to be the only thing I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fully beyond that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be untouched by the confusion of the illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then again: what would life look like if there was no one to experience it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am here, but I don\u2019t really know as what or as who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in a self-created place that will escape the grasp of our intellectual understanding with ease, all the time, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are allowed a limited amount of non-existing years in a non-existing world, through the senses of a non-existing entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could never say anything that will bring you closer to the Truth, that will help you understand or figure this out, because: what IS there to figure out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet that doesn\u2019t seem to stop me from trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not by giving you answers or providing you with steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not by telling you what to do, to read, or how to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not by claiming to know anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I am just showing you how to be gracefully lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @andrewtneel, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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