DOING VS. BEING

We are doers.  Even when we are not doing anything we are doing something.  Sleeping is doing something, for example.  Not doing anything at all is still doing something.  It is doing nothing.

It is easy to get lost in doing.  Most of us are lost this way, most of the time.  Unfortunately it is at the expense of being, just being.  Doing is dynamic whereas being is static.  We don't like to be static.  To be static is to waste time.

Yet, being is who we truly are, and since we don't allow ourselves, even briefly, to just be, we are always out of touch with ourselves.  We see ourselves as what we do rather than as what we are.

Eventually our doing, like a house of cards, comes crashing down, and we are suddenly, possibly for the first time ever, face to face with our true selves.  "What do I do now?" we then say, which is precisely the point.  Our true selves do not require any doing.