Awakening

I admit that I started this blog in an attempt to capture an Experience that changed my outlook on life in many ways. As you probably figured out by now, I don't have a defined plan or know what will emerge during the course of my writing. The fact is that I don't understand much of what is happening in my mind that much myself. What I can honestly say that, in many ways, I have changed.

Let me try to explain...

When all of a sudden, life seem to contradict your model of how the world works. When the priorities of your life appear less important. When you find yourself asking the questions that you thought settled again. Then you become exposed to an indescribable emptiness and vulnerable to the prospect of nothingness. When you realise, like the Jewish prophet Qohelet that life is vanity... Vanity of vanities!

This experience is personal inasmuch as it is universal. It's like waking from a long dream, only to realize that it was an illusion. A mirage that fooled you that you were drinking cool water, when in reality you were burning your stomach with scorching sand.

That's why it's often referred to as an "awakening". But when you wake up from the dream of a world which seeks only for itself and believes that its immortal, then you must be careful not to fall asleep again.

For even if it can be a lonely place, a state of awakening is a precious space in time that provides you with the opportunity of real growth.