BE THE REAL YOU

You can be a lawyer, an internet marketer, a university student, an architect, etc.; it doesn´t matter, you are, above all, a human being. And it´s part of the human make up to desire to be happy.

Currently, in the struggle for survival, people are very concerned with the goals and objectives that involve the material world. I have nothing against that. However, the individuals do not perceive that, in their search to obtain those material objectives, they start growing more distant from themselves; and, as this happens, they become more and more unhappy. Normally, they seek to fill the existential void through means that, if at times seem comfortable, can also become dangerous – running after illusions, escaping, looking for refuge in drugs, and so forth. And we all know that there are certain paths that end up leading one to death itself.

Regrettably, people do not see that happiness is really quite near, within the persons themselves. This failure to perceive has had a high price. On certain occasions, a person even has a clear understanding of things, but discovering the true path to be followed too difficult, gives it all up. And then everything goes back to being what it was before. There is no doubt that much determination is necessary for one to keep on going forward, following the right path. And all this becomes complicated at times, since the appeals of the outer world are always pulling the person outside his/her inner self, his axis. Man must overcome this great challenge – to defeat his own limitations, his fears. He should not fear searching for self-knowledge; without truly knowing himself, he cannot experience a true personal transformation. It is exactly for this reason that there is so much unhappiness around, so much frustration and lack of understanding, so many conflicts – personal ones and among peoples – such a lack of love and so forth. And, despite all these difficulties, people – human beings that they are – have always been seeking happiness, even though it is quite close. Without doubt, this is one of the great paradoxes of our humanity.

This lack of focus on oneself, this absence of sensitivity with things of the most intimate kind, and with things of nature in a general way, all this comes from the existence of a man who is not blessed with the due awareness. He even gets to the point of not respecting the environment itself, thus the huge amount of pollution in urban centers, in rivers, the large-scale irresponsible and criminal deforestation, which are all causing, in all truth, a preoccupying destructuring of the ecological balance. For this reason, nature has shown revolt through prolonged, torturing droughts, the tsunamis, the hurricanes (such as Katrina). And all of this at the same time as terrorists acts, guerilla warfare and wars. On one hand there is a man with no soul, and on the other furious nature. And just where will all this end up?

My book, “The Self and the World”, which is on sale through the links here specified, desires to awaken mankind to this other side, the side of one’s inner self, and tries to show that people should focus their interests, above all, on the things involving the depths of one’s being. Thus, if one proceeds in this way, he or she will be better capable of reaping the fruits of inner peace, of hope and blessedness. And, gifted with inner wisdom, he or she will be better equipped in order to cope with the external world.