Regarding the Inner Work

[Diana]

It's pretty well impossible to discuss this sort of thing if you haven't tasted it.  One can talk around it, but how can you discuss the feeling of the One in all and the All in any one portion without the direct experience?  What's the use of just talking about it?  I don't know.  The best one can do, I suppose, is what the Confederation dudes are doing, viz., encouraging us to seek and seek and seek within until we come upon that wondrous experience of self as All.  And again, at that point, why talk about it?  (...or type about it?)

So many questions.

I have pondered this myself. All my life I have been "thinking" about philosophical concepts even as a small child, and finding out very young that there was no one to talk to about them. So I stayed in my own head so to speak. This I think was a good habit to form, as it focused me on self-growth and inner seeking. 

But I think the purpose of talking about it, aside from the idea that one doesn't just talk about growth but does the work and takes action toward growth, is that it can feel isolating to always be focused inwardly which can put one out of balance with the idea of being one with others. A connection to others in speech and communication is also helpful for balancing and clarifying what is inside one—there is a transformation that takes place as thoughts are expressed into the world, which can help one to be an observer of the words formed from thoughts. In one way I think this constitutes a loss in scope since so much does not lend itself to words, but it can bring resolution or coalescence of amorphous glimmers intuited from the deeper parts of the mind. And more so for me, I use communication in words to develop my ability to express the truth (transparency) of what is in my heart and mind, and to open up a channel to do the reverse, and this I think strengthens connection in this world, like neuro-pathways in the brain of the collective consciousness.

I also think, and this is an incompletely explored idea, that there is a fine line between being self-involved and inwardly seeking. The idea that Wanderers are not here to fix anything can, I think, lend itself to excuses of ignoring this existence or not getting involved rather than accepting this world while also being of service within it. I find this at times to be a great challenge.