"Journey". Mallorca, 2023.

Not the destination or the final goal is important, but the journey itself....

I realized and understood the depth of this philosophical thought only in recent years, and I stopped living with expectations of obtaining a certain result, reaching a goal or destination, step by step, and thanks to my spiritual path, I learned to enjoy the "journey" (path) itself and not only waiting to enjoy the results, which, as a rule, quickly dissolve in the expectations of new goals and achievements, the conquest of new peaks. The ability to enjoy the journey itself, that is, the process, and the life itself with all its colors, tastes, aromas, feelings, and emotions.... This is not a pumped-up skill that can be developed while attending some training, listening to a podcast, or even reading a book. It is our unique experience that we accumulate during difficult life situations and challenges that force us to begin to look inside ourselves and change ourselves through suffering and pain, bloody knees and rakes that we step on again and again until we make the right conclusions and take new steps and decisions....

In Mallorca, I lived in a small village near Palma. The whole island is built in such a way that beautiful civilized roads are laid for sure around the entire perimeter of the island and you can walk endlessly along the seashore and enjoy a walk and a meeting with the sea. Probably four or five years ago, I would have gotten on a bus and gone to Palma to see the main landmarks of the city and take hundreds of thousands of photos, because it is for this reason that people from all over the world go to any city in any country of the world. My circumstances changed me, my preferences, my values, my outlook and consciousness. I went to Palma by foot, the road is about two hours one way plus about the same time from Palma in the direction of other cities. The endpoint, that is, the capital of Mallorca, was not important for me, the way was important for me...during which I saw and felt what I could not see and feel from the window of a bus or a car. This path cleared my brain and filled it with new ideas, aspirations, and realizations; refocused the direction of my energy in a completely different direction, tired physically, but opened my wings energetically and filled my body with lightness.... And all this way (this journey) I was continuously on a date with the sea.... When you master the knowledge and ability to enjoy the journey, you are right here and right now in this moment, you are opening up to the potentials of the universe and your hidden potentials, and most importantly you are not wasting your life on futile expectations of results and achievements that no person will ever be 100% satisfied with for a long time. These expectations always consume a huge amount of energy and strength. When a person learns to enjoy the process and the journey, he/she always accumulates energy and enriches himself internally, and then the result, as a rule, turns out to be much better, but the person finally stops being a slave to results and achievements, and finally allows himself/herself to live in his creative flow combined and multiplied by the powerful energy flow of the Universe. This is what makes us truly free and strong...

Enjoy your journey and your path, whatever it may be and whatever stage you are at now.

December 22, 2023.