You are life, here to do what all life is here to do, which is to create more life – to make the world more alive and more beautiful, and to receive life and receive the joys and delights of this world and be part of this unfolding of beauty.
Charles Eisenstein
Imagine living from the narrative the quote suggests. How would you greet others? How would you treat yourself? How would you live today?
It’s one of a million narratives you can live from. Imagine putting on orange-tinted goggles. Now your world looks orange. You can take those goggles off anytime, but sometimes you forget you even have them on.
Sometimes these narrative googles are your core beliefs and values. Sometimes you’ve borrowed them from others without realizing, from family, culture, media. Sometimes they’re rose-colored, other times a little blurry, smudged, or even disturbing.
Can the goggles ever be clear and transparent? A non-narrative view? What would the world look like then? Perhaps it is possible, and spirituality and religion hint at it.
But first, examine your narratives. Look for the tinted goggles you forgot you even had on. What lightens the color? What makes your vision more cloudy? What clears away the smudges? What adds them?
What narrative are you living from right now as you read this? And what would you choose if you knew you just could?
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