Akhenaton’s Ankh
March 15, 2006
The key of eternal life- Akhenaton’s Ankh Pendant
The Key of Life sign or Ankh, as it was referred to by the Ancient Egyptians, was a symbol of eternal life. This was often passed down from the gods to the King
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I do not remember whether it is Confucius or Lao Tse that said: “the key to happiness is learning how to control ones desires. making the different between want and need are actually two different things. I am intentionally not mentioning need necessity yet as it is a separate item than want. Most often we confuse necessity and want as well. I am not going to go into definitions as it is as simple as thinking that you have a necessity of wanting something or someone. Having someone is not a necessity but a want. Wanting and having are two different things. Wanting someone is often more pleasurable than actually being with the person that you want. Once you get the person that you want, you may realize that having is not as pleasurable as you thought it would as you now have to deal with the person’s moods and nature.
What one figures as a necessity is often the desire or need to have a man that represents a father figure… sort of a protective love. In order to love fully and trust fully, one has to get rid of the need of the necessity for that protective love. Once you can stand on your own to feet and no longer long for that which makes you think that you necessitate, you will then feel a happiness which will allow you to in turn make someone else happy. The desire and/or want for someone breeds a form of necessity which gives birth to lack of trust and the need to control the other person for we are afraid to loose he who gives us the illusion of being complete.
Letting go is a good thing indeed. As human we tend to latch on to someone we thing we can not be without. We fall in love with people because they give us a good sexual feeling not understanding that love has nothing to so with sex. A relationship based on sex is doomed. The hummmph one feels during the first encounter and subsequently during sex is bound to fade. Nothing lasts for ever. What is there once that sensation and the sex gets old? Nothing! Unless you take the time to know the person and develop a friendship that could survive the lack of luster when time tarnishes the hummmph we felt in the beginning. It is ok to love a person and accept that the person is not good for you.
One has to accept the fact that everybody you are in love with is not actually good for you. If you dig deep down into your memory, you will realize that you at some point in time you met someone and thanked God or that person. Then you pray for happiness and the person starts acting up. The more you pray for happiness and deliverance, the more the person acts up and start moving away from you. Eventually the person exits your love life all together and you are left standing asking God what have you done to deserve to be so miserable.. without the person you need. It never occurs to you that the person what not actually good for you and when you were praying for deliverance, your prayers were actually responded to.
You are now out of the pit and you are doing better haven met someone that treats you as you want to be treated and not as they think you need to be treated. Again, being human, you turn around and see how deep the pit was that you just got pulled out of and you fall back in it (love, lost, sex), and you are left there by the new and the old. The moral of the story is.. once you are out of the pit (moving sand) walk away and not towards it. Make room for the new and keep the past as a point of reference as to what not to get into ever again in your life time. let go of your Ex, and accept the fact that you will always have feelings of love for him. Yes, I know some of you are saying that ohhhh I can stand him, etc… and wish him harm, etc… trust me those are the last cries of love…. move on!