Sometime ago, I saw an interview on TV that I felt would serve as a good analogy for some of us; it did for me. A former Australian Prime Minister’s wife was interviewed by a well known journalist who was trying to find out what she was like behind the scenes and away from her role as the wife of the Prime Minister.
In her own right she is a successful business person, as well as someone who in her own words has found her “field of fascination.” I thought that was a particularly apt way to put this search many of us have had and some of us still having.
Joseph Campbell used to say his father encouraged him to “follow his bliss.” In fact his whole philosophy and attitude to life is really based on this one premise.
Generally speaking Life is a search, a constant search, a continuous search for something we know not what. There is a deep urge in humans to seek but as a rule people don’t know what they are seeking.
Moreover, there is sometimes a certain state of mind in which whatsoever you get is not going to give you any satisfaction. Frustration seems to be the destiny of much of mankind, because as a rule whatsoever you get becomes meaningless the very moment you have got it. Have you noticed that you tend to start sarching again?
It seems the search continues whether you get anything or not or whether you’re rich or poor, healthy or sick. This is strange as it seems irrelevant what you have got, what you have not got — the search continues anyway. When we look outside us even the powerful are searching as well as the powerless and still it appears nobody knows exactly what for.
The search can be for money, for power, for love, for sex, for security, for health, for anything. This mind seems to be a begging bowl, there seems to be a big black hole in the very fabric of our consciousness, in our minds. We keep on throwing things in it and it is never full and we’re never satisfied; it is a feverish search and one which must end if we are to be truly fulfilled
The problem is that the search doesn’t allow us to be right here in the present moment, it keeps throwing us into the future. The search is a desire that something else is needed, something lacking, and somewhere else far away from us, far away from here, far away from now.
If we haven’t found our field of fascination, perhaps it’s because it’s right under our noses. Have you found your field of fascination?
Sincerely
Chris Borrett
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