Click for audio: The Scope of Life

When we think of our life, we normally do so from within the reference of our body-based self-image. Our attitudes and perspectives are formed by the current condition of our body and our larger body of circumstances. This causes us to see things in one way when there is another.

You’ve probably had the experience of flying. One moment you’re on the ground making your way through a long, spacious corridor, carry-on in tow, the sights and sounds of the bustling airport occupying your attention. Shortly after, you’re seated five miles above the order clomid online earth, so high that another airport slowly passing below becomes distinguishable only by its huge runways.

On those occasions when we become lost in the details of our daily life, there is something about stepping back and getting a broader view that helps remind us there is a larger scope. We we are much more than this personality at the center of our swirl of circumstance.

I believe that our present life is but one of many we’ve experienced. I think of the various places I’ve lived just within this lifetime. Each involved many relationships, circumstances, dreams, and plans that seemed important at the time. These are individualized segments of life into which I was born and to which, in a very real sense, I died. They all had beginnings and they all had endings, whole lifetimes complete in themselves, as different from one another as beads on a necklace. The common thread that runs through them all is me. And while each experience has had its own impact, the I that I am, the one observing this string of beads, is the same observer still. My body has aged and viagra receta espana I have more beads on my string, but I am still the same. And taking a seat high above this present lifetime, how many other lifetimes might I have strung on the macro-cosmic necklace that constitutes my soul’s experience?

While I do not have a conscious recollection of other beads, I do have the absolute conviction that my present life is but one of many. From this perspective, those occasional, looming, attention absorbing problems seem but imperceptible details passing slowly below.