Food for Thought
If the food we eat possessed just enough consciousness to fully comprehend and understand what it would turn into after we eat it, would they agree to continue to exist as food or would our food yearn to completely change itself into something else? Something more dignified?
If human beings possessed just enough consciousness to fully comprehend and understand that they continue to exist even after death, would they agree to continue as they are, or would they yearn to completely change themselves into something else? Something more dignified?
Consider the following in this way… food is defined as “what we do with our lives for the benefit of others”.
We all feed off each other in some manner, even in the mode of thought. Even in the mode of careers. We all feed off each other, but we also feed each other as well.
I suppose that thru this analogy, the Soul who feeds (by his whole life—thoughts, feelings, words & actions) to others the most accurate representation of the Truth of God would be called the greatest soul (mahatma) of all.
Such are the Adepts, Yogis, Magicians, Alchemists, etc. of all time. They offer the “bread of life” by their work.
Now keeping in mind the food analogy, consider the following.
If we knew that the food (our work) we offered to the world would just be misunderstood, abused, misquoted and unappreciated, would we still bother to offer it?
Logic states that it is pointless.
Compassion states it must be offered.
The former is the left brain’s answer. The latter is the right brain’s answer.
The middle ground states that you must offer your work to the world, but within the bounds of reason, meaning don’t completely neglect yourself in the process of doing your work. There is only so much work one can do before the work itself destroys the worker. There is no need to destroy oneself in the process. And do not forget that the work must be congruent with one’s inner nature, or else one will not want to do it in the first place. In this way, even if the whole world rejects it, one can rest easy upon death knowing that what should have been done with one’s life was indeed done.
And yet how many people are not even doing the work they are naturally meant to do for the world but rather doing what Fate forces on them, and doing it to excess which destroys them on every level, mentally, emotionally, and physically?
