Hi Zat — have another perspective to offer ;)
Love the beauty of this story, the young boy pursuing his dream. Hmm — tho it’s really “out there,” it’s possible he may be Fermat, come again, to tie-up the loose ends. But that’s not the point I want to make, here.
It seems the higher truths, when we discover them, always turn out to be simple — simple & elegant. Not messy, not difficult at all. In my life, I’ve discovered that what makes things “hard” or “easy” has more to do with my perspective than with the things, in themselves. What’s a breeze to one may be grueling, be difficult to another.
As long as we’re not still out there, trying to save the world, to enlighten ppl, to solve the world’s “problems,” then we’re available to an inner Peace, an inner nature that views nothing as hard — just the next step. Mind provides the lenses thru which we view anything as difficult — & it also rests on the element of time — how long would it take, etc.
As we move into the NowHere, the present-moment awareness, everything flips. What seemed normal to us, before, now looks clearly upside-down & backward — convoluted — just strange. The beauty is that we, too, once perceived from that mind perspective — yet now, we don’t. It all simplifies, tremendously! becoming elegant & sleek.
From this new perspective, we find self ever calm — perhaps it’s Self, IDK — but there’s a peace, a balance, here, that’s unlike anything mind could ever attain. The mind is all about doing, about advancing, getting ahead in whatever it is that lights our fires — Heart is just this, just Now — serene in the midst of whatever presents. HUGELY different.
Once we begin to withdraw from the element of time — our beliefs around that — finding our way out of the nowhere of that, into the NowHere more often — serenity sets in. So does clarity, arising every which way we care to look.
Only now, our tendency is to withdraw from all the perceptions of difficulty, of challenge, of the seeming chaos in the world — which no longer vibrates in consonance with us — with “where we are,” for lack of adequate words to convey this.
It just doesn’t resonate, anymore — we’re moving on — only now can we see the true journey, the deeper one, as inward, rather than outward. At this point, we’re moving into Heart “space” — again, just a word — but it happens concurrently with our exit from identifying with the mind (or body-mind). No coincidence, there ;)
So, to sum up, it doesn’t matter in the least which way we turn — what choices we make. As long as those choices resonate deep within, that’s the path, the way for us. Yes, it will be fraught with disturbances, with difficulties — after all, this is 3D — duality. Show me a one-sided coin, lol — no such thing.
However, we’re in a new realm — yes, right here where we are, seemingly still in 3D. Yet we’re not. Just as all the frequencies of communications, of TV, radio, cell & microwave towers… all pass through our NowHere space — yet we’re not aware of them, absent our focus on that, absent the appropriate device to tune them in — so it is with the various dimensions. They’re also all right NowHere, as well — requiring us to “tune” them in.
This is done via Heart, via our persistent focus in the NowHere. The mind will never get us there, as it spends its time basically chasing its tail. Resolving Fermat’s theorem took tremendous NowHere focus. Yes, it was mental work, yet the drive to pursue it came from much deeper, within. Absent that, it couldn’t have happened, seems to me.
Did he consider his work difficult — or was it more of a joyful challenge? Hard to say. I just want to close by sharing that it’s in pursuing those things we find joyful, those things that lift our spirit, that abundant awesome experiences & understandings are enabled to flow into our life. (Otherwise, we’re letting mind block them.)
Once we drop our beliefs around time — there is no future, no past — realizing there is & ever was & will be ONLY NowHere — then we’re well on our way. In 1829 it was Now, in 2220 it will be Now — truly, NowHere is all that exists. :D
~♥~
