A person’s character is associated to his ability to withstand the destabilization that accompanies all awareness. Destabilization means tension, discomfort, anxiety. Nobody likes that, right? However, without sustaining the tension produced between opposites situations / ideas / thoughts there is no evolution.

Light is the third element born from the union of two opposites, the negative and the positive electric current. Likewise, anything that contradicts the status quo causes inevitable emotional distress. However, it’s from this buzzing kettle that anything new is born. Because they can’t withstand the tension, and even before they can clearly see the opposites at stake, many people summarily remove what they feel in order to end the tension. In its place made up justification are stuck, which at a closer look don’t make real sense (therefore these people also don’t like a good debate of ideas).

It seems to me that this is the greatest difficulty. Any change, especially those for the better, are announced by tension. When usual situations in life need to be changed, whatever they are, home, work, friends, boyfriend, career; when you need to change your mind, beliefs, practice; when you begin to say what you think and stop the make-believe; when you want to finally take control over your life and do justice to what is just discarding what is wrong: in all these moments an inner tension comes upon you and if you don’t have the moral strength to endure it there will be no change at all. What you know to happen will not materialize as there is emotional testosterone to be carried on. To justify their own cowardice, people invent excuses. It’s typical (or expected?) that “smart” people “understand” and don’t create “silly” discussions. To the smart one, everything is “fine”, “in order” and “quiet.”

Because of this moral weakness the doors for abuse are open. Unscrupulous individuals take advantage of smart people who “do not want problems.” Lies are supported by smart people who are aware but don’t want “trouble”. To avoid fights, intelligent people accept unfair and harmful conditions, in the name of “peace”. It’s mainly to intelligent people that the concept of being good and fool applies (Read my Being Good Not Foolish).

According to modern physics, the vastness of the universe with its galaxies, planets, the Earth, plants, animals, humans, in short ALL it has came from a tiny speck, invisible to naked eye, unique, which in a certain moment “exploded”. This theory is called Big Bang. What made this little thing open up, unfold, expand and flourish in the amazing reality we know? What is the spark for the turning point?

It’s the feeling of discomfort. An uneasiness pregnant with possibilities ferments inside and grows, grows, grows … Until it explodes into a new universe: a new consciousness, a new life, a new individual. A new truth.

This process is natural, it exists for billions of years. It crossed the mysterious blip that gave life to the universe and crosses our heart, mind and guts every day. Some call it God, truth is that it’s powerful. It had the courage to shatter itself into millions of forms, some extinct other victorious, like ours. Now it throbs in the human soul and the humans vacillate between following it or sabotaging it, opening up or shutting down, saying yes or pretending to be deaf. Here is where intelligence should have its final test.