GROWING INWARDS

RAMÓN ANTONIO LARRAÑAGA TORRÓNTEGUI

Diploma and Master's Degree in Human Development FESC- National Autonomous University of Mexico.

We all live within an existential situation that, by its very nature, is limited in possibilities and imposes barriers of all kinds, of place, profession, intelligence, health, economy, time. There is always a gap between desire and its realization. Sometimes we feel powerless against facts that we can not change, such as the presence of a schizophrenic with its ups and downs or that of a terminally ill patient. We have to resign ourselves to this inescapable limitation. That is not why we have to live sad or impeded from growing up. You have to be creatively resigned. Instead of growing out we can grow inward, as we create a center where all things unify and discover how we can learn from everything.

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Well said the oriental wisdom: "if someone deeply feels the other, he will perceive it even if it is thousands of kilometers away." If you modify yourself in your center, a source of light will be born in you that will radiate to others. The other task of self-realization is the ability to detach from material things, or the anguish that limits us, it is part of the maturity of a human being, it is the freedom to be, it is the ability to detach oneself and to say goodbye.

 If we look closely, detachment belongs to the logic of life: we say goodbye to the mother's womb, then, from childhood, youth, school, father's house, relatives and loved one. In adulthood we say goodbye to jobs, professions, the vigor of the body and the lucidity of the mind, which irreparably wear away until we say goodbye to our lives. In these goodbyes we are leaving behind a bit of ourselves. What is the meaning of this slow saying goodbye to the world?

 

BE YOURSELF

There was once a doll of salt. After making a pilgrimage through arid lands, he came to discover the sea that he had never seen before and that is why he could not understand it. The doll of salt asked him: "Who are you?" And the sea answered him: "I am the sea". The doll of salt returned to ask: "But what is the sea?" And the sea answered: "It's me." "I do not understand," said the doll of salt, "but I would like very much to understand you. What can I do?"

 The sea simply said: "Touch me." Then the doll of salt, timidly, touched the sea with the tips of his toes and noticed that it was beginning to be understandable, but then he realized that the tips of his feet had disappeared. "Oops, sea, look what you did to me!" And the sea answered him: "You gave me something of you and I gave you understanding, you have to give everything to understand everything".

And the doll of salt began to slowly enter the sea, slowly and solemnly, like someone who is going to do the most important thing in his life. As I went in, I was also diluting and understanding the sea more and more. The doll of salt kept asking: "What is the sea?" Until a wave covered him completely. At the last moment, before dissolving into the sea, he could still say: "It's me." He detached himself from everything and won everything: the real me.