The
Veil
Photo by Davide De Giovanni from Pex
BY MICHAEL HOWARD
What’s your veil? What keeps you from seeing further into reality? Is an attachment to someone restricting your freedom? Or a religion keeping you deluded? Is alcohol, or another drug- maybe a prescribed one – dulling your sensitivity ? Maybe it’s positive psychology, pep talks and self-help gurus that have you blindly affirming, chasing your goals unconsciously. Or is your day-to-day bump and grind so deeply ingrained that you simply don’t have the time, or the inclination, to look deeper. What is it that keeps you from going crazy in this insane world? Wait… do you even realise that there is insanity? Do you know that your happy facade might implode if you stopped and really examined things? Don’t say it wouldn’t, unless you’ve tried breaking the facade and looking behind the veil. What drives you to keep living your life, without collapsing into a heap of existential meaninglessness?
Rat races Are you aware that absolutely everything you spend your time doing or believing, is aimed solely at keeping you from breaking down? Our lives are rat races, games of survival of the fittest, where the aim is to beat the opposition in order to boost our egos and keep our masks intact. If you stop, you’re in trouble. We all are. Why?
Conscious Life Magazine
