When we look at a person, do we see the person or do we see our thoughts about the person?
Sometimes we see what we want to see rather than what is. Sometimes we know in our hearts what is, but we refuse to believe it.
As Jon Kabat-Zinn wrote in Wherever You Go There You Are, “We can live in a dream present for a dream future. Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”
If we choose to see a person as a person, he or she might not meet our expectations or cause us to rethink our beliefs. He or she might disappoint us, or shatter our carefully constructed illusions.
This is part of waking up. In each moment, we can choose to see a person or our thoughts about a person. In each moment, we can mindfully make that decision.
We’ve been sleeping for millions of years. It’s a wonderful day to awaken.
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“Between the idea, and the reality, between the motion and the act falls the shadow, the rest indeed is Silence.” T.S. Elliot
A poem I wrote for Earthday:
” mediocrity the perfect victimless crime, the scream of the butterfly, narcisstic genocide, happy? earthday! nod if you can hear me?.”
Dennis/calitweakster :-))