The mirror maze

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The Mirror Maze

Ever walked into a mirror maze? It can be a lot of fun. Walking along, Every step reveals a different version of you—taller, shorter, wider, distorted, multiplied. You know they're only reflections, yet for a few moments they seem real enough to make you smile.

Life is something like that maze. Whatever we hold in our heart, the world reflects through its mirror.

Try it out

Walk into a discussion with an intent to find a solution and eventually, if not immediately, you will reach common ground. 


The opposite also holds true. Walk in to a meeting with an intent to raise a dispute, when dispute is what you gonna get. (Enough Karens out there in the world)

Seek peace and the immediate enviornment around you is peace. Noise from constructions, traffic, people on the road cease to be noises, they become different parts of a symphony that is our immediate world.

Seek solitude, and even amidst the loudest crowd, you'll discover moments of stillness.

Seek healing and your body and spirit will start to heal almost immediately. 

Whats stopping us?

It is not our intentions. It is our aprehensions, our cynicism, our reservations. Those become the filters through which we experience the world.

When we let go of those filters and approach life with openness and acceptance, the world has a remarkable way of responding.

One of my favourite songs is Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror. The chorus captures this idea beautifully:

I am starting with the man in the mirror

I am asking him to change his ways

Perhaps that's where every meaningful change begins—not with the world around us, but with the person looking back at us from the mirror.


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