What makes despair excellent?
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 12:11PM Despair is like hopelessness. Its a word used to describe how you feel when you sense you have lost something important. This could be a job, a relationship, a situation that had appeal. You were attached. Despair is about when you are ready to give up on yourself. It relates to resisting forced detachment.
And yet, part of you hesitates to believe this perspective is impartial or meaningless. You catch a glimmer of light amidst the apparent negativity. What prompts you to view despir as suddenly excellent? Consider 15 mind-blowing benefits;
1) You see, hear and laugh in completely new ways.
2) You learn the universe orchestrates its own justice.
3) You build love, compassion and honor to heal wounds.
4) You realize nothing matters as much as you thought.
5) You discover a shift of focus awakens deeper mindfulness.
6) You feel exhaustion and then calm, fearlessness and silence.
7) You embrace universal equality with renewed sincerity.
8) You slow down to detect feelings of unimpeded harmony.
9) You realize humility triggers profound devotion to nothing.
10) You see eliminating craft and profit erase motive of theft.
11) You experience diminished desire, and return to simplicity
12) You recognize long-established comparisons are trivial.
13) You gain insight into mercy, empathy and indifference.
14) You sense form is neither full nor empty, just present.
15) You grasp nothing harms you unless you give consent.