Inspiration and Input for My New Future

  

When I´ve learned something over the years ... it would be to not be too astonished anymore about what life reveals for me in moments I expect it the least. 

Sometimes it´s a chat with a friend or a song I listen to. Sometimes I am to while away the evening with watching a movie on YouTube, relaxing on the couch, when it is exactly this movie where I find some important answers or inspiration in any shape or form.

Usually it happens in the instant of a moment, mostly it happens when I don´t expect something big to happen. And almost always it DOES NOT happen when I desperately long for some answers. 

Lately a chain of important input is happening.

I guess the kickoff happened with watching a sequence of one of Sadhguru´s speeches on YouTube. I first "met" Sadhguru in "The Time of the Sixth Sun". Though I am not much into Indian and Asian culture he reached me with his laid back and jokingly presented wisdom. That´s why I so enjoy listening to him, even when his theories do not match my own theories.

In this specific sequence Sadhguru answered a question about love and relationship.

And what he said stuck with me:

Love and relationship are two totally different things.

Love is a feeling, an emotion you have within you. This feeling is yours and yours only. You don´t need anybody else to experience it. 

Relationship is more of a management between two or more people. Of course you play a part in it, but it´s never in your hands only. 

After a while of processing this thoughts it dawned on me how important this new insight is for me! 

Was I not searching for True Love all of my life? 

And am I not frustrated because I am not good with relationships? How grotesque is it that I, who wants nothing more than to find True Love, am not able to have joyful and fulfilling relationships?

So, if the two actually don´t have anything to do with each other ... maybe I am not that lost as I thought. I do know how to love deeply! I exactly know this overall warm feeling of loving somebody or something with all my heart and soul. 

So, I guess I am much closer to my Life Goal than I thought!

And when it comes to relationships, any kind of relationship - romantic ones, friends, colleagues, community, etc. - I do not have to stress myself that much anymore, because it´s not in my hands only. Being responsible for my part and not for the outcome of the whole thing, sounds much more doable ...

This conclusion somehow made me calm down a lot. It even had an impact on other parts in my life. Because I realized how much I overdo the planning, growing and learning stuff in every part of my life.

I so much want to heal from the past. I so much want to prepare for a joyful future. I so much want to bring out the best of me. 
When in reality I only should be grateful for everything I´ve already achieved in my life and for everything and everybody I have in my life.

I really should be in the moment and enjoy life.

With that I am not only acting and reacting only to what is directly happening. I also create so much space for everything important to happen. Space for the truth of life to reveal itself and space for new insights and new directions. 

Now this new created space brought me to the next level.

Becoming the Real Me, being and living as pure and natural as possible, already is on my agenda for a couple of years. As much as I contribute actively to this new life style I also receive inspiration when I don´t look for it at all.

Recently I opened a video on YouTube and the young woman in this video directly talked to my soul!

Of course I watched more of her videos because they spoke to me. She herself, the amazing nature in her videos, how she lives her life, her style, her values ... and last but not least the message from her videos:

Minimalism 

That´s the new key word!

Well, actually it´s just the logical conclusion of my journey ... as everything I did and do would have brought me to that point at one point, right?

Trying to live as pure, natural and trash free as possible is a huge part of minimalism after all.

So in that field I am just prolonging my journey. But ... a whole new field is opening up at the moment, as I discovered that minimalism is not only working in the material world but would also serve me damn well in my inner world.

Pure and clear thoughts.

Pure and clear feelings.

How relaxing and calming that sounds!

I was so inspired by that new key word, I wanted to start right away and big again! A new project, a new chance to get creative and something to write about. 

Fortunately I slowed myself down.

I made this mistake way too often with my pervious new beginning of something important.

There is no way I can adapt to something new from Zero to Hundred. At the very beginning I run on all the excitement. And that might keep me going for a while. But when this energy fades away the project gets difficult until I totally loose interest in it and consider the whole thing as failure. 

In the worst case I feel like a failure myself ...

Not this time.

Though the urge was there to start right away, I just mulled it over for a couple of days while I tried to get more inspiration. 

So the seeds are definitely planted and the ideas are ripening ... but this time I take all the time I need to get it going. Step by step, whenever it feels right, developing a new life style instead of jumping into it head over heels. 

Well, it will not be a completely new life style after all. I already created the best base with everything I achieved in the last years. 

Actually the journey is as organic as in other parts of my life:

Learning, growing, trying to find new ways, being curious to try different things and get inspired as much as possible. There are single pieces and clusters of new habits or a new knowledge and at one point I realize how they all fit perfectly together. 

So collecting different ideas and trying a variety of new things might seem a bit chaotic and messy first. But by following the hidden purpose of all of them is leading me to the point where everything comes together. 

I do know that everything has a purpose! 

No matter how small something might appear. Sometimes the biggest message lies within the smallest thing.

And the funniest thing is AGAIN: how much messages I find about minimalism at the moment - everywhere!

Why? Because it obviously is not only important for my personal life journey but it´s a big topic nowadays. Another key of leaving the struggling and suffering behind us and transfer into a life full of joy and happiness. 

Today´s blog I want to end with another message from Sadhguru, my new inspiring source from the other side of the world:

"I believe" means I don´t know.

You only have to believe in something you don´t know. Otherwise you would say: "I know." 

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