Fourth Form of Madness

Sometimes life seems to be full of questions? From the moment we are born we are set on a path of deciding what to study, what religion to follow, what career to pursue and on and on ad nauseum. Now I am no great scholar but what I have noticed through all the philosophy text I have read, whether it be eastern or western, is that there seems to be a few big questions that are always getting asked and examined. They are essentially;

What am I?
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What’s the bigger picture all about?

Essentially these four questions (albeit slightly differing versions) have been asked for over thousands of years and I believe will continue to get contemplated well into the future as whilst each of us may reach answers to these questions for ourselves, there never will be any confirmation as to whether you are absolutely right (although there will be thousands of people that try and convince you otherwise). It is our birth right to ask these questions and all of us in our own way steps up and accepts this birth right.

I am particularly indebted to questions of this nature because for me they were my safety net when thinks got particularly dark a few years back. For me when I started my yoga journey I immediately fell in love with the Oneness theory. Loved it, embraced it but struggled to really feel it for my fellow beings. As I have learnt on this journey, you can’t force these things, they will come of their own accord every single time. It was through contemplation of these questions that I began to see the true common thread of humanity emerge – we all have these questions to answer, we all have these questions as a common thread running through us and our contemplation and experience of trying to search for the answer to these pivotal questions are what join us. Through this commonality a great compassion can be born and nurtured for all.

So why the most often socially asked questions might be “What do you do for a living?” and “where do you live?”, these will not be the questions that are remembered of you or are important about you. For the important questions are the ones you ask inside yourself and of yourself, even if you never find out if you were right!