(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)
When you look to the future hoping to find something to enjoy, where are you trying to arrive there from? If you are trying to escape from the present moment what does your present moment consist of? Is it a projected future with little or no hope in it? Is it a future full of efforts that appear not worth making? Is it from a past filled with guilt or regret for the wrong choices that you believe were made?
But what happens when you allow life to become what it is – could it be a mystery? Could your present moment be full of hope, joy and unlimited possibilities? Is the present moment in truth full of discoveries to be made?
Is the key factor that affects your happiness – what you believe life is and what you are living life for? What are you living life for?
If you believe life needs to go according to your plan before you can feel self-worth, could this lead you to believe that feeling self-worth right now is not possible? Could this be a myth?
If you are someone who is facing a great challenge – and believe you must overcome this challenge to realize your personal self-worth, what has “self-worth” become to you? Is self worth something to achieve – or could it be something simply to realize? Perhaps you will only realize that your self-worth is present here and now, by facing a great challenge? What would it require that you realize your self-worth isn’t based on anything external to you?
And so…is the idea that your personal worth is waiting for you to achieve some great accomplishment before you can realize it – the myth itself?
If we shift points of view, could the mystic be you, one who keeps awareness focused on something far greater than that of a mythical journey? Is it possible that there is something greater than a mythical journey -such as the mystery that is you? What if you were life itself and were exploring the mysteries within you? What if the meaning of everything you perceived as outside of you came from the inside of you – as what you believed? Would you want to find out why you believe things that make you unhappy?
If realizing your true nature does not happen through attaching your identity to a widely held but false belief – is your realization simply rediscovered by your relinquishing attachments of a thought made reality? And yet, maybe understanding cultural myths is the way for you to go. After all, who but you decides what the value of something is to you personally? Maybe unhappiness serves a purpose.
But if there is nothing greater than an infinite expanse of possibilities that are within you, would you be open to this mystery? Rather you realize your self worth though a myth or being open to the mystery – are you bound to realize something?
If you take some time to reflect – do you think of yourself as a myth or a mystery? If you are not what your thoughts have made you, who or what are you? What have you realized? What do you hope to realize?