Finding Balance in the Cycles of Motivation and Hopelessness
Do you ever wake up and feel inspired? Like you have a clear vision that it’s actually going to all work out for once. Your heart lights up and start making your plans! Your dream life is falling into place.
And then the next day somehow that inspiration is gone. You feel hopeless. Stuck. Unmotivated.
But how? It was just here. It felt so tangible, how could you have lost it? But you did. You lost it. Perhaps you lost it the next day, or the next week, or the next month, but eventually we all lose it.
And then it eventually finds its way back.
This is what is known as samsara, the cyclicality of life.
Everything comes and goes in cycles. Nothing is permanent. Trying to cling and latch onto something will lead to suffering.
To escape this cycle is to free yourself.
To zoom out and take a meta perspective on your day to day samsara cycles, you can recognize the highs and lows of the experience and view them in a detached way, as a witness, not the experiencer of the suffering.
