A few days ago I had a revelation prompted by the question “A LIFE OF CONTEMPLATION OR ACTION?”. It is a fundamental question of my existence and it hits the nail of my struggle dead on its head. Action alone leads to emptiness and ethical immaturity. Conversely, contemplation alone cannot achieve wisdom, nor manifest any thing.
As happens so often to us, we forget that which we already know. They are things we would never have realized we knew unless they were revealed to us by something “out there”, at which point we realize we had known them all along. I call this revelation. Sometimes this comes in the form of a good friend’s advice, but sometimes it comes as an elegant diagram catalyzed by conversation (thanks Agatha): A or B? Action or Contemplation?
This blog is the fruiting body of my shift towards action.
addendum: some may have the opposite problem, that is, a life dominated by action. Perhaps this isn’t a call for anything except balance.