Fore decades I thought "I am". This thought took many forms including "I am successful", "I am a failure" and even simply "I am". But this very partial truth is trumped by a more complete truth - "We are" - and this, in turn, is part of a bigger truth that "Life is". Even so, these words may not convey the majesty.
From the perspective of "Life is", the sentiment that "I am" represents the grossest shrinkage. One is not so much as a full-stop in a library; the narrow "one" is almost nothing.
Yet there is good news. Each one really is part of the whole, and the whole really is. So the whole is in you and you are in the whole, oh holy one.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Feel the Flow and Do it Anyway
Susan Jeffers wrote a best-selling book Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. Brilliant as it is, there is another view: Feel the Flow and Do it Anyway. There is Flow everywhere - in fact everything is flowing.
We could say there is nothing but Flow. But if that is so how come it doesn't feel that way? Because we let ourselves get in the way. You can notice yourself getting in the way when you are thinking about ... yourself.
A worry, for example, is usually a worry about yourself - "Will I keep my job?" "What will happen to me?" "What will they think of me?" But getting out of the way isn't so easy especially if, like me, you spent decades getting in the way. And resisting interference usually stimulates more interference.
This leads to the paradox of the self: the more you know you are nothing, the more you can connect with everything. And the more you feel you are something - especially something special - the more you disconnect. A lilttle qualification: the life force that is in you is absolutely amazing. It is, however, the same life force that is in everything else. It is life in all its abundance.
I spent years thinking "I am", a sentiment which is qualified by the bigger truth "We are", which is also part of a bigger truth "Life is". Even so, these words may not convey the majesty, for from the perspective of "Life is", the sentiment that "I am" is, well, puny.
We could say there is nothing but Flow. But if that is so how come it doesn't feel that way? Because we let ourselves get in the way. You can notice yourself getting in the way when you are thinking about ... yourself.
A worry, for example, is usually a worry about yourself - "Will I keep my job?" "What will happen to me?" "What will they think of me?" But getting out of the way isn't so easy especially if, like me, you spent decades getting in the way. And resisting interference usually stimulates more interference.
This leads to the paradox of the self: the more you know you are nothing, the more you can connect with everything. And the more you feel you are something - especially something special - the more you disconnect. A lilttle qualification: the life force that is in you is absolutely amazing. It is, however, the same life force that is in everything else. It is life in all its abundance.
I spent years thinking "I am", a sentiment which is qualified by the bigger truth "We are", which is also part of a bigger truth "Life is". Even so, these words may not convey the majesty, for from the perspective of "Life is", the sentiment that "I am" is, well, puny.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Happy New Year
A few things to say at the start of a year. First, congratulations on having survived the last one. You'll probably survive this one too. Second, welcome to this one - another awesome experience beckons. As we enter a new year, what's the point? When we are unaware, perhaps the point is to find it. So what's yours.
The start of the year may be a good time to review the blog. It has a new title - Reflections on Being - which has been popping into my mind recently. What the point of the blog? It is a means, not an end. At it's best, it may prompt you somehow. A slight shift in awareness. A clearer hearing of a deeper calling within. The fostering of inner space.
For me personally writing these short reflections is also an exercise in trust. A simple trust that words will flow nicely. That there is, after all, something to say, that a simple quality may adorn mere words.
Happy New Year.
The start of the year may be a good time to review the blog. It has a new title - Reflections on Being - which has been popping into my mind recently. What the point of the blog? It is a means, not an end. At it's best, it may prompt you somehow. A slight shift in awareness. A clearer hearing of a deeper calling within. The fostering of inner space.
For me personally writing these short reflections is also an exercise in trust. A simple trust that words will flow nicely. That there is, after all, something to say, that a simple quality may adorn mere words.
Happy New Year.
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