{"id":6780,"date":"2012-04-13T20:35:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2012-04-13T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:44:19","slug":"johannes-reflects-on-being-and-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/johannes-reflects-on-being-and-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Johannes reflects on Being and Becoming ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is beautiful ~\u00a0Johannes shares with all at Divine Earth his words on Being and Becoming ~ A blessing ~\u00a0<\/p>\n

Being and Becoming<\/strong><\/div>\n
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How often do we senselessly push ourselves mentally, physically, psychologically, emotionally, to the point of exhaustion? Over worked and over stressed are two phrases we hear a lot from our friends and from our own mouths. We know we do it, and we know we suffer the consequences, but why do we do it? Why do we often push ourselves to the brink?<\/div>\n
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It seems to be a belief of modern society that if you want to be a success you have to work harder. If you want good grades in school, you have to work harder. If you want to get a promotion, you have to work harder. Always this desire to achieve lingers in our heads. And no matter how much you do, you always have to do more.<\/div>\n
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But what if you just want to be simply happier? Can you actually work harder towards becoming happier? We know that if you spend a lot of time studying you will learn more. We can agree that if you spend many hours at your business you can get more done and potentially make more money. But what is the equivalent process to getting more happiness? The conundrum is that we believe that by becoming more educated or by working harder that these things will magically equate to a happy life.<\/div>\n
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I think if you take a step out of the sphere of your own life and look at your history, or the history of anyone else you may know, you will observe a few things: that more education doesn’t go hand in hand with more happiness. Nor does working harder. Nor does having more material possessions. This is not to say that people who are very educated or work very hard or have many material things cannot be happy. I am just stating that it is not these things that create the happiness within.<\/div>\n
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In my own observation, true happiness – not the kind that is based on ego fulfillment – is an unburdening rather than an accumulating phenomena. It is not a process of adding anything to your being, but rather a releasing of all that is not unnecessary. When the belief is dropped that “I need more of this to be happy” than future is also dropped and dropping the future is a pivotal epiphany towards experiencing the here-now and ultimately towards enlightenment.<\/div>\n
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Just for a day, allow yourself to “be.” Don’t be concerned with “becoming” for that is occurring without any effort anyway – just as a raindrop becomes the river, and just as the river becomes the ocean. Enjoy yourself as the raindrop unconcerned where the journey takes you. Don’t be concerned about one day becoming the vast ocean; just enjoy all you are as a raindrop. The raindrop will become the ocean, that is guaranteed. But the raindrop who concerns itself only with becoming the ocean is miserable and misses the beauty and uniqueness of being who it is.<\/div>\n
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Blessings,<\/div>\n
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Johannes<\/div>\n

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This is beautiful ~\u00a0Johannes shares with all at Divine Earth his words on Being and Becoming ~ A blessing ~\u00a0 Being and Becoming \u00a0 How often do we senselessly push ourselves mentally, physically, psychologically, emotionally, to the point of exhaustion? Over worked and over stressed are two phrases we hear \u2026<\/p>\n

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