This is the last post in a series that has focused on learning to see through a new lens and gathering perspectives. I’m still waiting for my muse to come to me before my next post.
When I consider the wonderful minds and the special creative talents of each of the individuals with whom I have had the privilege of sharing time, I am reminded that a kind of sensory acuity is developed by those who choose to walk through this life as intentional creators and observers. It is among these people: friends, associates, teachers, mentors and family members, that I most thrive.
On many levels we all create, of course…some of us incidentally and some of us by intention and purpose. It is insane, and mostly unappreciated, the infinite ways the creative process shows up in the world…and how we participate in it…intentionally or not. We know that we create our personal blue print to some degree and we create out of it and ‘see’ out of it. Weirdly, we know that each of the 7 billion people on this planet is a witness to life through his or her unique lens and STILL we expect that ‘they’ should see just like us, more like us…or at least get us. My hope is that we will choose to create ways in which the boundaries of difference might be ‘seen’ as the illusion of separateness they really are.
How much energy is spent trying to convince someone that a cloud shape in the sky is not a horse’s head but something other or that how they see a situation is misguided at the least. What useless squandering of time and really, who cares? Wouldn’t it be more to our highest good to notice how the clouds actually hold an image at all and with the influence of the wind, easily take on other forms, no drama, no loss of sense of self, rightness or wrongness. What if we too could move that easily through powerful influences to be, to grow and reconfigure our relationship to the world?
On some level, we, most of us, want to understand and we long to be understood. But what if it didn’t matter how someone else sees the world or walks through it? What if it is just about observing it, learning from it, embracing it or letting it go with no drama, no vetting, no judgment or attachment. It is what it is to each of us. Lets be OK with that. From our human observatories, if we strive to expand our empathic fields of view to bring clarity to our connection to what is, we may come to understand that the ‘what it is’ we see is defined by us and how we have chosen to look at it.
Next post: A new focus