Your Life Purpose, Pt 3 An Easier Take on Solving the World’s Problems, and Your Own
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On the way to something else…- Brilliant wisdom from a 10 year old
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Dear world server,
Having established that we all share a simple Life Purpose, let’s add another shared interest re: purpose. Service. Most of us feel an inner urge to make or be a difference.
We want to serve others. Among us, there’s a strong feeling of being here to help make the world a better place, to help with “the shift,” isn’t there?
On my way to something else recently, rustling through old files, I came across this very early blog, from Dec 30 of 2006. It fits nicely in our ongoing series exploring Life Purpose so I’m sharing it here. It’s short and sweet and deconstructs our over-thinking about being of service. What a relief.
What Does It Really Take to Solve World Problems?
Let’s begin today with a wonderful truth spoken by ten year old (!) Marco from Bulgaria, who said,
“Open the eyes of your heart, and solve your problems in a new way. You believe it will take years or lifetimes to solve things like hunger, disease and violence. Is it possible that it is simple, and that your need to see it as complicated has been the the very thing that has kept you from the answer?”
I think that’s an illuminating question, don’t you? Our minds have a learned preference for complexity instead of simplicity. Our egos also have a rapt fascination with the complicated – which allows for maximum cleverness, strategy and personal heroism. Together these keep us in a more adrenal-laden quest for the complex view and solution.
This creates complicated, confusing and often overwhelming lives. Simple methods seem naive and boring; we tend to discount them. We just aren’t that interested in the obvious or easy, we mistrust it.
Could it be that, as ten year old Mario said so wisely, the need to see a problem as complicated is the very thing that prevents the answer? So often genius and innovation have come out of simple moments, sometimes even as “accidents” stumbled upon on the way to something else (like today’s blog). What could be more simple?
In the simple there is often wisdom and greater ease. Therein lies serendipity and the profound. But before a solution is even considered, our minds most often first tell us of the many difficulties standing in the way, the resources not at hand, the extensive time needed.
We go straight to what can’t be done and the dire consequences of that. Despair rises, overwhelm short-circuits our energy and we often don’t even get started with the thought process let alone actions. (more…)
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