Peaks and valleys, waves, roller coaster. Sometimes life and relationships can be described this way. You know, high highs, low lows or just ebb and flow. Until yesterday, that’s how I thought life had to be. That there was constantly an oscillation between emotions like this. And for the majority of my life, it’s been my experience.
When can we live free from pain if most of life is cyclical?
By breaking the cycle, changing our character so that the pattern breaks and our reality is able to shift. Most changes related to ourselves don’t happen unless we make it happen.
What does life look like without cycles?
It looks like love. Not like we’re used to. Most love we see and experience is a facade. Sure, the feeling is real, we definitely are attached and even on sync with the person we love, but love is loosely defined today. Love as it is to religious teaching is different, unexpected. It’s free from self interest and instead resides in the devotion of self to the world and therefore to others. We find peace and pleasure in caring for ourselves and the ones around ourselves. Joy is freedom from expected outcomes. When we do things as an end to themselves and not as a request for other things or contribution from our peers, then we have found joy, we know peace and we have devoted our love to the world around ourselves.