doubt

"Doubt is always there. Perhaps if it weren't, we would not be so very wide awake, nor so open in our senses, listening, watching... Through doubt the world emerges in the colours of our lowest energy, rationalized through our intellect as much as is possible, through those protective belief systems, and stamping with their emotion. Yet in allowing it to express itself, we awake to oursleves a little more. We question, we clarify, we make our choices." (ref: Restall Orr)

Around and around we go

doubt surety

surety doubt

doubt surety

surety doubt

STOP!

security

se·cu·ri·ty (sĭ-kyŏŏr'ĭ-tē) noun
1.Freedom from risk or danger; safety.
2.Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.

Finding out our basic motivations is a long process of awakening self-awareness. We watch and take note of our actions and responses, of emotion triggered and expressed, of any circumstance that evokes energy. We start to listen to the messages our physical body is giving us - pockets of tension, knots that tighten, shakes and twitches, internal and external. We learn to break through the barriers of our pride and know the ways in which we - so skilfully- fool ourselves.
 
...at some point we will come across the blocking assumption which seems to sum up our whole lifetime, explaining every mistake and self-negation in its dreadful repeating pattern. It's not only a fact based upon some occurrence and adorned with attitudes which are our protective decisions... Perhaps these are the very reasons why we have chosen to incarnate: this pattern must be broekn. Only when we start to understand which motivations we hold deep inside us can we begin to live effectively, consciously creating our reality, evading erratic and destructive landslides.
 
(Ref: Restall Orr)

which way?

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

(Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, 1916)

doubt

"We have extraordinary experiences and, less than two hours later, we're trying to convince oursleves that it was the mere product of imagination."
(ref: Brida, Coelho)