Reactivity
What’s the purpose of this reactivity?
Is it the small self carrying for greater recognition?
Perhaps ignorance marking its territory
Nonetheless , Just the unconscious bubbling below the surface
Wanting Life to be a certain way
Commendable when a teenager attempts to find its own individuation and finds it in a balance.
It may well be the moorings of a child’s ever persistent whimpering in an adult body.
The inner voice catapulted by every day reality makings its way through reactivity.
The need surfacing
Some necessary
Others seering as needs under wants.
Unrecognized
Imploding when targeted towards the self
Explosive when projected outward.
Both methods perpetuating harm to self and others
Reactivity for reactivity sake speaks of sheer blindness
No learning present here
No purpose defined or seen
Self perpetuated
Brick layers further cemented with no piercing Light.
Release from suffering not possible here.
Turn it around and allow the light to penetrate
Seeing and seeing
Addressing
Accepting
Loving
Growing
Making the unconscious conscious
Knowing that each attempt to gratify the self is a mirage
Sifting the true needs for love, well-being from the injurious
Doing the work
Much greater purpose lies here.
Freedom from suffering does not come in living through habitual patterns of reactivity
But in greater explorations beyond self and psychology,
The light wanting to brighten the soul
In each moments passing
Crossing thresholds of the narrow confines of mind and habit.
To inhabit the boundlessness of the prevailing isness.
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