We live in a time that calls us to see truthfully and faithfully what is before us. It’s easy to condemn our perception of the truth as “magical thinking”.
In fact, we are trained to deny the truth of what we see.
We’re not talking about denying the truth of a stop sign or your beloved’s tears. The gift of the world today is that we all have the opportunity and the capacity to see and know the magical transformative truth of what we comprehend moment by moment.
The Ghosts in Our Words
Some words and phrases that make up our values, ideas and basic beliefs are too small because the ghosts of the past are hanging out in our vocabulary.
You probably know the expression “saying one thing and meaning something else”. Most of us like to think of ourselves as honest people and mainly we are. Unless we’re living under the tyranny of someone else’s words or ideas that we haven’t self defined.
Interesting Fact
Have you ever thought about the difference between revolution and evolution?
The Online Etymological Dictionary defines ‘Revolution’ as “revolving, to turn, roll back.”
The term ‘Evolution’ is defined as “an opening of what was rolled up” as well as “the growth to maturity and development of an individual living thing”.
What is vital for each of us to remember is that we have power.
We have the capacity to create our experience of the world painfully or joyfully.
And…
Have you ever noticed the ongoing dialogue you have with the voice inside your head?
This voice is telling us a story all the time.
We invite you to make friends with the voice inside your head, your Maker of meaning.
You can change the story you’re hearing.
We create standards to have consistency or sameness.
They can be really helpful. They assist us in grading eggs, knowing how to greet the Queen of England and buying shoes. What happens when we standardize our ideas around love, acceptance, and freedom? We make rigid what is actually alive.
We live in a time when questions aren’t supposed to last very long. With a few keystrokes we can get an answer to almost any question we might ask.
What if there are some questions that aren’t supposed to go away?
What if the first answer isn’t always the right answer?
What if part of the foundation of a rich, loving life is having some questions that stick around?
