Emotions, goals that underscore them, impulses, desires…it’s all phenomenological and emerges as a response to something in your surroundings and as a result of experiences you’ve had by now, as trinkets to fill the emptiness, but the emptiness is not a place to fear.
We’re so used to consuming distraction in order to avoid the moment of facing the void and we’ve been conditioned by our upbringing and education to keep ourselves occupied, and entertained because if you are not taking in impressions or expressing something you’re deemed catatonic, shy, depressed, detached, closed off, peculiar… This is not so – there exists a far more important thing that the goals and constant chatter of following every barking dog – intention. Intention is all-encompassing, like a metronome for the soul and energies that rearranges and sets everything into place, like a conductor in front of the orchestra making sure that every instrument fits into the whole and creates a congruent piece of music. Have you ever heard how the orchestra sounds while it’s warming up before the piece starts? This is what all of your capacities sound like without a set intention – a deafening dissonance.

Emptiness is good. It’s place everything is built from. Nothingness is the most opened place there is with unlimited potential. No attachments to the outcomes, no arrogance of believing you know enough to control everything. Just set the intention, you cannot predict the innumerable factors that will come into play at the final point, but setting intention, openly and to do no harm, will make you react much faster that calling for a round table in your head and covering yourself in heaps of information that have already been preprocessed and carry the echoes of agendas of others.

The journey doesn’t have to leave a mark on the traveler and your intention must be so clean to even allow for you removing yourself from situations and people you love if you see that there are some underlying pathologies governing your action. For example, you have no right to tell someone else what is possible for them if they are trying to grow. If you have no support in your heart at least have the decency to just get out of the way and not crush their faith because you have none. Clean up your own inner world until you’re able to act for the good of all. Make yourself into a tool and put yourself at the disposal of the world with the gifts you’ve been given, you’ll never feel as fulfilled as you will by serving in humble appreciation.

Intention outweighs the strict goals on all scales. Put your ego and its selfish childish tantrums that want to reaffirm and boast itself in the world to sleep for a while. Realize that nothing is definite, nothing needs to be done, there is no place of lack and you’re already enough, even if you have some things to sort through. The shadow self and its light counterpart are both already here. Don’t ignore or identify with either, you’re both and neither one. They are integrated and will display themselves in accordance with the intention, mindset, purpose, mission… whatever you decide to call it through the course of your lifetime.