As we exist in our everyday
structures for hope we cannot help but think about what are the best
investments for the future. As in playing the stock market of life we perhaps
seek an advantage. How can we get rich quick? How are we best served into the
future?
The best overall attribute is the
penchant for curiosity.
Curiosity is the service of
wonder. It is the feature of living life openly and with uncompromised functional
awe. And because it is in agreement with openness it is our best chance for a
voluminous future.
A Future With Big Hope
The best of hopes are big and
bold, as in space for possibility. When we can approach the future with such
space there are options aplenty, and because our curiosity is able to work more
fully in such an environment, we have the world at our feet.
This is not necessarily a material
world, for material riches are nothing to be taken for granted, but it is very
much the reality of a spiritual world that serves us.
And this is no selfish service. To
have the world at our feet, spiritually, is simply having a scope for the
future that brims with hope, and is throbbing with curiosity. This is the
future where present moments are filled with wonder enough to explore both the
frightening and the boring alike. Everything that the senses pick up would be
within our capacity for interest.
The best of spiritual worlds is
grasped when we have a heart for exploration within the expanse of life, where
no doors are closed and the possibilities exist at our fingertips.
Nurturing Curiosity
So, how might we build a future
that is informed so much by curiosity?
Firstly, we need to build it as a
self-concept. Having defined curiosity as an attribute that serves us well for
both the present and the future, we begin to install it.
We might begin to capture essences
of daily life that could be served now in curiosity. We train ourselves to be
more open to the possibility. We watch our responses. When we catch ourselves
in defensive mindsets, or in stubbornness, or sometimes when we get angry, we
notice our vision for openness closes dramatically.
Watching for times of closed
mindedness and simply wondering why is as important as commending ourselves for
being openly curious. If we can see life as a study, a thing containing so much
to be learned, we nurture our future now.
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The best investment for the future
is curiosity now. An exploratory mindset opens us to hope and it facilitates
joy. Being curious also nurtures a sense of wonder; perhaps the most glorious
of spiritual virtue.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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