Deep Insight, Achieving Goals, Normal Human Evolution

     I wonder how a child, who cares and feels deeply about the people and world she encounters in daily life, can essentially ignore them all, in order to focus most of her energies towards achieving a specific distant goal eg becoming a dentist or physician?
     Many of us squeezed our considerable spiritual sensitivity into a tight professional box. Certainly during one's youth, one has to choose EITHER remaining deeply in communion with life in general, OR becoming a skilled health-care professional.
     But by age 50 or 60, one's authenticity often can no longer be subdued, and one's profession can come to feel claustrophobic. To the extent that we allow ourselves to open our mind-heart, we realize that we must begin living undivided lives**, where our core spirituality**** and our daily lives become progressively more congruent.
     This is healthy normal human development or evolution of consciousness. This is essential to promote, and extremely pathologic to suppress or ignore.

     ** http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/search?q=undivided

     **** "matters of truth, reality, and ultimate importance. … personal, affective, visceral, and passional dimensions of being and knowing"
        Parks SD. Big questions, worthy dreams. Mentoring young adults in their search for meaning, purpose, and faith. John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco, 2000.

Young Violinist at the Halifax Seaport Market, February 23, 2013