How Deep Do You Go?

A quote I’ve been pondering lately makes me want to ask this question.

Here’s the quote for reference and then let’s consider how deep you go with yourself?

Most people even though they don’t know it are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry asleep, they breed children asleep, they die asleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

Anthony De Mello

So let me ask you are you really even scratching the surface of what is possible for you? Are you living on the periphery?

What does it all mean for you anyway?

Have you ever paused to contemplate why you’re here in the first place? Is it really for everyone else? It is really to give and give and just show up and be so dependent on everyone around you, not for monetary reasons, but for emotional and psychological reasons. Dependent in a way that makes your own existence matter less?

Meaning your world revolves around others minus solitary moments of bliss where you are alone yet completely whole. How often do you have moments like this where you yearn for quietude and draw yourself, your senses, your imagination and all of your awareness inward rather than out?