against the grain?

If you think you are already fully formed and whole then you may as well go now. If you think you are a work in practise then read on.

Of course we are formed to a point in order to survive through the way we have been conditioned to survive, i.e; birth-education-career/family/home/mortgage etc and many variations on a theme.

Lovely for you if that's enough, you are the lucky one's, but only in certain respects.

If you have been fortunate or unfortunate to have been a restless and discombobulated soul, then you may find yourself doing something like yoga in order to make some deeper sense of it all, perhaps, maybe. This does not necessarily mean that the aforementioned, career, family etc need to have been excluded. Indeed originally the so called spiritual path was for 'older men' who had done all of the material things aforementioned (again) so that they were now ready to look within rather than without.

Only 'you' know if you are a true seeker, if you are then start looking. But do you know what if anything you are looking for?

It comes back to one essential thing, either you are happy or you are not. If you are not the why not?

Seeking in itself can become an obsessive/addictive trait just adding more baggage to an already overloaded lifestyle. Living one's life going on endless retreats and workshops and not actually changing anything in the 'world' that you live in is a big issue today. Therapies and treatments abound relieving us from our suffering. The thing is 'why are you suffering in the first place, ever wondered?

Perhaps this is why now there is so much apathy and so little interest in politics, why indeed politics itself seems to be so bland and middle of the road. Because we get all our juices and tensions absorbed through all the therapising and politically correctionalising our fire and passion are dampened and we become wet and soppy, and shanti shanti shanti, and the abuse becomes blended in and the greed goes on and we say 'ah well what can we do, ahhhhhhhooooooom'.

'We create neurotic suffering in order to avoid authentic suffering' Freud. (He was a cocaine and nicotine addict apparently) and while we're on the subject Carl Jung had an ongoing mistress for years throughout his life and the whole (more or less) idea of western psychology is based on these 2 guys principle ideas.

"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton.