“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.” Lao Tzu
The gua concerned with self knowledge and study lies in the near left corner of your home as you enter the front door. This gua and its benefits are not as immediately evident as others, say abundance or career. But how can you enhance any of the other guas without first knowing yourself? Self awareness enhances all of your relationships, whether they be with family or career, love relationships, creativity, knowing how to attain and retain abundance or how to accept help from others.
Use this gua for self cultivation and reflection. Find your passion and set the intention to know yourself through it and commit to seeing the process through to fulfillment. The cultivation of self reflection can be found through writing, painting, meditation, music……..the form does not matter. Gather what you need, things such as books or other study elements, journals or create a meditation corner. Enhance this area using greens, blues and black. Invite in the wisdom of elders, mentors or respected teachers. Visit regularly, taking a few moments to let go of controlling your life to sit and let the mud settle. Perhaps one day you will see the big picture.
“Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.”
Bertrund Russell
Copyright 2007 Brenda Rosenberg All rights reserved
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