Absurd Good News

Fortunately, healthy people experience almost daily flashes of vision — the peak experience — which makes us aware that there is something badly wrong with our basic assumptions: they bring the flash of “absurd good news” — Colin Wilson

Aparigraha embodies the idea of good things to come. Once we realize we can actually part with whatever it is we have been holding on to — the ten-year-old T-shirts with sentimental value, the receipts we never turned in, the clutter of our lives — we begin to understand that we are clearing a space for something better. The past is dead, and we are making room for the living… Oftentimes when we believe that we’ve been holding on to something we need, we find that the reverse is actually true. The real loss is the emptiness, the soul sickness, that we feel as any form of fear disguised as greed or hoarding. The symbols of our fear block us from the light of our own spirit. As we step away from these symbols, these phantoms, a wind catches our sails. Lighter, freer, we look up and glimpse the far shore, and suddenly we are filled with the joy of “absurd good news”. — Rolf Gates, Meditations from the Mat