Thoughts and Questions on Searching

  • The risk of seeking illumination through introspection is that a flood of tears can douse the candle, plunging the searcher into irrevocable darkness.
  • Thinking that searching for answers is a logical endeavor suggests that the question is clear; sometimes, only after finding answers do the questions present themselves.
  • Looking in the mirror, it’s clear that mirrors conceal everything beneath the surface of the reflection. You have to get behind the eyes to see what’s beneath the veneer; and that means breaking the mirror.
  • We’re surrounded by life-preservers, the people in our lives who keep our heads above choppy waters. If we dive too deep, looking for the bottom, we risk losing life preservers to the tide.
  • How might we cope with finding that the role we should have filled has been left empty, leaving a void that has cascaded through the life-preservers around us?
  • If we learn the time we’ve spent digging a hole in search of the bottom should have been spent, instead, filling holes dug by others, which holes should we fill first?

 

 

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"Love not what you are but what you may become."― Miguel de Cervantes
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2 Responses to Thoughts and Questions on Searching

  1. Mary Lou says:

    All life experiences, whether good or bad, happy or sad, make up the sum total of who we are as a person — and a writer. Don’t bury them as if they never happened. Don’t turn away because they are painful. They are what make you human. – mary lou moran

    Tom Spanbauer calls it “Dangerous Writing” – Poets and Writers Mag Jan/Feb 2016. “To write dangerous is to go to parts of ourselves that we know exist but try to ignore–parts that are sad, sore; parts that are silent, and heavy.”

    It is usually informative, and sometimes healing.

  2. Juan Flores says:

    I love reading these, John…..

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