There's something I'd like to say about what it is to
transform
our lives, which allows for living a worthwhile life (and
consider if we aren't living life
transformed,
we're living life as tubes ie we live as survival
machines).
If I articulate it well (that is, if I say it with the appropriate
emphasis), it'll be something which you can look at and choose (or not)
freely.
Said right, there'll be
freedom
in it - like an opportunity on which you can pass, or into which you
can
step
at will with no pressure to do either.
I'm careful to say whatever I say in this genre, as if it's something
to inquire into like a possibility, like it's
something to look at (or
spoken
with
rigor,
like it's a place to look from) instead of as "The Truth"
ie instead of as something to
believe.
This imposed
rigor
in my
conversations
challenges me daily if not hourly. The problem with
listeningtransformation
as if it's "The Truth" is it drives
transformation
out of the realm of experiencing and into the realm of
believing.
In the realm of
believing
there's very little experiencing - indeed, there's
arguably no experiencing at all in
believing.
Transformation,
on the other hand, isn't to be
believed
(sorry
believers,
but there isn't any
transformation
to be gotten by
believing
...). You can, however, experiencetransformation.
Experiencing is the realm in which
transformation's
thriving.
Now, with all that out in the
open
and exposed, I'd like to
complete
saying something about what it is to
transform
our lives, which allows for living a worthwhile life:
At first glance it would seem there's a dizzying array of
options for living a worthwhile life. And if we were limited to
choosing only one of them, that would be bad news. The
good news however, I assert, is this: living a worthwhile life isn't so
much limited to one way of living one kind of
life, but rather it's a
context
for living whichever way of life we choose to live. That said, I
invite you to consider that living a worthwhile life is living what
you say. Said another way, living a worthwhile life is living while
playing
in that particular
world
in which whatever you say, is your life - or, improving a
dated expression, "putting your
mouth
where your
money
is".
That is my definition for living a worthwhile life, no matter what
option in the dizzying array of options we choose to live life
(remember, my definition doesn't
work
when it's believed as "The Truth"). It's available as a choice for
those people who've sought and found out how to live in that particular
world
in which our
word
isn't merely what we talk about in our lives: it's to
live in that particular
world
in which our
wordis our life. That's a worthwhile life to live. That's
living a worthwhile life.
Living in that particular
world
in which my
word
is my life, is what makes it possible. More than that, living in the
world
in which my
word
is my life,
creates
the
context
for living which makes whichever way of life I choose to live,
worthwhile. So when I float "living a worthwhile life" as a
possibility,
listen
my emphasis on "living" like a
context,
rather than on
"a life" like only one way to live. It's living from a
context
of "my
word
is my life" which makes any way of life I've chosen to live,
worthwhile.