7 Crucial Signs That Show You Are an Advanced Seeker Of Life
Life is the dancer, and you are the dance. — Eckhart Tolle
Remember that sleepless night due to stress? And other sleepless nights when you were deeply in love. The result was the same — a sleepless night. But one was draining, and the other was energetic.
Can you count on your joyful moments? Now calculate your desperately low incidents of life.
What a ride? Right!
Life is an enigma. It gives immense happiness, but not without the cost of miseries. They always go hand in hand.
Life always signals to grow, pushing your buttons to move in the right direction. But it all depends on your conscious choice whether you want to remain stuck in the eternal cycle of joy and sorrow or wish to be free from it.
Everybody is seeking something from life, be it money, love, family, or self. It is crucial for them.
But genuine seekers are the ones that have experienced that no amount of money or love can satisfy them. They seek true freedom and happiness.
1. You Are Courageous to Question the Way Everybody Lives
Everybody is living in endless cycles. In the hope of making life easy, people are trying to change their situations and influence people.
Being surrounded by these automated humans makes it difficult to raise questions. The endless race makes little sense to you. You try to understand it and end up asking questions.
People may avoid you or try to shut you out. But your keen observation keeps on growing with time. Only a few courageous people see the futility and dare to question auto living. You are one of them.
2. You Somewhere Know That People Are Terrified From Within
Fear is the essential thing in every living being. We all are taught the fear of survival since childhood. Fear seeps down the vein and breathes through every human.
‘How tough the life is? How important is to build security, otherwise no one will care?’
People live their whole life around their forced beliefs. Nobody wants to let go of its security easily. Instead of judging their near-sightedness, you understand their deep-rooted fears.
Recently I came across my college classmate. She told me how I always had a paper and pen, where I’d draw diagrams and ask weird questions about life. Hilariously, I didn’t remember it. But even after 14 years, she vividly remembers it because it scared her.
People run away from these questions because it scares them. It terrifies them to lose everything they have carefully built. The walls of the cage seem beautiful to them—only a daredevil and actual rebel questions these golden walls of illusion.
3. Even After Experiencing the Profound Truth of Life, You Don’t Force Others to Perceive Life as You Do
Life opens its secrets when you become more receptive. In your sensitivity towards life, your heart profoundly connects with the other as well.
You know everybody has their journey. People will come around when the time is right for them. You can not force others towards any understanding.
Everybody has their lessons which they have to experience. All you can do is be with them when they undergo such a journey to guide them.
You respect and accept the indifferences. Nobody can expedite the process, no matter how much you love them. Life will unfold for them at the right time.
4. Compassion Overflows Even to Your So-Called Enemies
Being an observer of life, you realize people act from rigid belief systems. You understand their foul words or actions result from their slavery to emotions.
You may become affected for a short period, but you understand where they act. This deep understanding makes your heart ooze with compassion.
5. Gratitude Is Like Breathing To You
From spending time with a loved one to being alone, you are always grateful. Whether happy or sad, your heart expands in deep reverence for what life brings.
You welcome everything with open hands. Your heart already basks in the glory of gratefulness, which Harvard Medical School is trying to prove by counting the benefits of gratitude.
6. Desires Fulfilled or Not — It Hardly Matters To You
Desires in life are common. The desire itself doesn’t make them suffer. But it is the attachment to their desires that makes them suffer.
You may have many desires, but your detachment from them makes all the difference. If they are fulfilled, you are happy. If life does not fulfill them, it does not disturb you either.
Equanimity in life situations makes you more balanced. This stability dissolves your fear. Because now your happiness does not depend on the outside. It oozes from within.
That is why you become are ready for anything that life may throw at you. For others, you may appear as a daredevil, but for you, you are a lover of life.
7. You Have Realized That Difficult Situations Are Not a Test, but Your Friend
Unprecedented situations, loss of loved ones, unjust reactions can happen out of the blue.
You may have undergone great difficulties and overcame them, not by struggling with them, but by understanding the lesson it had for you.
Your profound understanding comes from great acceptance of everything. You have recognized you can not always change situations or transform people. But you can work upon yourself.
You have realized that nothing is in your hands. But you can always redirect your reactions and express your heart.
Focusing upon yourself becomes paramount. Shifting the entire attention and responsibility to yourself transforms your whole life.
Takeaways
For some, life is an ugly teacher. For others, it is a joyride. No doubt the uncertainties of life make it scary, but that also makes it interesting.
It all depends on how you perceive life. Everybody wants to be happy, but most search for it in situations and with other people.
Nobody can change the situation and people according to them. But everybody can focus inwards.
Look for the deficiencies that prohibit you from hugging life in its entirety. Then the spontaneity of life turns from scariness to blissful.
Give up defining yourself — to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. — Eckhart Tolle
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