GO BACK TO HOME
Three went for a walk together. One felt the warmth of the sunlight and saw how the breeze rustled the leaves of a tree. The second noticed how the trees gave cool and shade, while the third that the tree was the home of so many birds and insects. The first on seeing a dog wondered where it was going, the second looked about for the dog’s owner, the third pondered why the dog was limping. All went on the same walk, all perceived differently.
On another day the three walked the same route. Again each perceived differently as all was not the same. So it is as we journey through life. We are allowed to see things in an alternative way and we are permitted to alter our thoughts and feelings. I am not wearing your moccasins and you are not wearing mine. I am, you are.
Some say, “I have always been like this.” “I was born like this”. Others, “I am as I see myself” or “I am what I breathe”, “I am what I think”, “I am what I feel”, “I am what I eat” We all perceive in our own way, all differently. We are allowed to.
Do I perceive my parentage as making me different, my continent or country of birth? In what way? From what perception? Shape, size, intelligence, feelings, health, environs, happiness, family? We are all on a lifetime journey. We are all in different circumstances. We are all our own individuality.
So where am I, who am I and just what am I doing here on planet earth? I have got myself to this point in my life, no one else. I may consider others have affected me on my journey, but is this really where I wish to be? Is there anything I would change? Am I living my truth? Perhaps, just perhaps, if I look in an alternative way, then I may perceive things differently.
As I look at myself on arrival on planet earth, I may imagine myself as a perfect gift. To what extent I was accepted or otherwise was a consideration of those around me, but of myself I was perfect. As I commenced to sense outwardly and to look further afield, I started to absorb my mother’s, father’s, caretaker’s and other people’s feelings, emotions and opinions. As I felt and looked, I also took on board the worldliness about me, collecting it like chattels. At that same time I started to lose sight of whom I am within and I became other than my true reality. Now I have come to realise that I have spent so much time looking outwardly, at the world, that I have neglected and lost touch with my inner being. I have ignored my core self, my soul, my very essence, all because of my fascination with the worldly. Yet I am not “out there” where I spend so much of my time, I am my own soul being, I am within. It is just that I have forgotten.
Practice:
Quieten the mind. Be at peace and accept that you may perceive differently.
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