"The Pain of Denial"

At what moment in our lives do we actually know that we don't really know what we're doing. Is it when we reach the low points in our lives? Or is it when we have achieved our goals?

It's rather easy to listen when we become victimized by unpleasant situations. When we reach our low points  -- those points of the pain and suffering we feel in sorrow, debts, unemployment, foreclosures, prison, illness, and so forth -- most of us are ready to listen to anyone with a solution to our situation.

We work to accomplish things in our lives because many of us don't know what else to do. We cannot bring ourselves to accept that we don't know exactly what we want or why we spend our lives doing things that cause us to deny our own existence.

Some of us live for our families. We strive for harmony and happiness, and when we get it, we know we can only keep it for a short period of time. In other words, we cannot control the uncontrollable: The vagaries of human behavior.

Some of us proudly proclaim that we're happy with our lives, and readily trick ourselves into believing we have no regrets. We chalk up our pain and suffering as being part of the reason we believe we're happy. 

Some of us even go so far as to keep secrets from ourselves. And in doing so, we strive to achieve societal defined goals at the expense of ourselves.

In other words, we lose ourselves in the society of pain and suffering by trying to use it to rationalize our lives. This action inextricably tie us to our desires to achieve something to make us feel that our lives are meaningful.

Nevertheless, by denying ourselves the limitless power in our minds, we become lost in the vast ocean of collective pain and suffering. Unfortunately, as we drown in the deepening swallow of acceptability, we continue to swim aimless in a never ending ocean of denial about what we are doing to ourselves.

Similarly, many of us actually believe our lives have meaning, even though we aren't doing anything close to expressing who we really are.

So, in our quest to deny the limitless power we have in our minds, we work tirelessly on jobs that require us to harm ourselves and others.

We deny our participation in selling pharmaceutical drugs, fraudulent loans, alcohol, and all types of products and services that cause the destruction of others. And even as we participate in our own psychological and physical destruction, we fail to recognize that it's suffering we're creating, not happiness.

Some of us remain psychologically depraved because we're unwilling to unleash the great power in our minds. We accept mediocrity, because it gives our lives some meaning.

There has to be some meaning for us as a receptionist, mail room clerk, truck driver, retail salesperson, local politician, school teacher, union worker, computer programmer, telemarketer, investment banker, religious leader, writer, dentist, doctor, and so on. 

Meanwhile, it's very difficult to find someone who has unleashed their full potentiality, the limitless power of the mind, in their work. We seem unable to get to that point of greatness or powerful. It's always something causing us to come up short in expressing our limitless power.

Most of us work because we have to. We search for professions that we believe will give meaning to our lives.

And because we're the ones who decided these professions would give meaning to our lives, we find it difficult to accept another perspective.

Whenever we deny our potentiality, the limitless power in our minds, we deny who we really are.