At its core its like a fountain of youth because it rejuvenates the spirit continuously without fail the more you work at it. Like building a structure that can always be improved philosophy takes time but is worth every step of the way if your loving what you do!
Like anything the start is the most difficult, and when you don’t see the results immediately it can dampen the mood quite a bit. Having to get up and get things going, not being appreciative and judging too harshly get you down.
The trick is to engage in the actual doing of the work and not focus too hard on the final result. You might be stuck with good foundations and simply be too tired to work on the walls and all the wonderful cosmetics. Take a breather and let those foundations do their job – soon you will have the energy to continue on.
Foundations are like that – they take a lot of time to get into place and you can be SO glad that its not a house built on sand.
In some cases people build huts on sand and migrate a lot, ever changing their perspective to what fits best currently. You might be in between, but in the greater sense your always building on a temple. You live beyond your earthly existence as the overall soul and I’m pretty sure your life will go on as a fragment of that. This should not confuse you into thinking you are not an example of the whole in tiny form.
Whoever you are at your core you always work on, be it overcoming distraction and the like or refining your talents – its a continual process that keeps you growing in a direction whether your conscious of it or not.
Some choices are automated and some take time to make, so there is the element of free will. In some cases one feels almost devoid of free will because the responses are so natural and refined, and in other cases one works hard at cultivating a way of being that serves.
The ebb and flow takes you through good and bad times and its all within your philosophy that determines how you handle things, and by this I mean the behaviours and automated responses that you have programmed into yourself.
There are so many things I have learned and have yet to learn so I’m not yet fluent in handling every blunder I go through but I’ve got my foot in the doorway.
Most probably I will always have to battle some kind of foe, hopefully merely metaphorical, but I’m very glad its not the foe’s I have faced in my past.
So one goes along tackling distortions and other demons in the metaphysical world and some in the physical and its the attitude that determines so much – whether you get up again etc.
Philosophy will be your teacher always.