The Ideal or the Real

The world is always aspiring to the ideal, not the real. Everyone wants power, love, and wealth, but the mind only understands control, lust, and money.

The mind interprets these things in a way that only the mind can understand: as objects to be acquired through desire and effort, and as things to be possessed or acquired in time, not as expressions of our inner goodness and truth. We allow our minds to tell us what is true and real, but our hearts know different.

The reason the ideal and the real never meet is because we do not trust ourselves, or life, to create that which is real within us. We are uncertain if our goodness or truth can bring us happiness or harmony with existence and we wonder whether we can survive here with it.

We fear the darkness in ourselves and do not investigate its origin or the reality of our inner natures. The ideal within us knows that something beautiful and good exists within us, but the reality is, our minds have created a distraction to prevent us from discovering the truth within.

We aspire for the ideals within our imaginations and ignore the reality of our inner pain and the proper way to heal it within.