Hear Me Squeak
Sep. 21st, 2011 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
I came upon a slim fountain gushing from an unseeable center, as high as it could, reaching without arms until it ran out of reach, and at its closest to the sky...
It does not only take time to see, but also to hear and understand. It also takes an abandonment of preconceptions and your own expectations to do so properly... to see and hear something for what it is, not for what you think it is, (or want or don't want it to be), because we live our lives in the wake of our own experiences, and sometimes they bring false or erroneous impressions or understandings to what is actually being done, said or intended..
I'm sick of being second guessed. I'm tired of being misunderstood, and I don't need words or actions or intentions to be put into my mouth... because the ones I intended are already there.
It just takes a moment to see them, hear them and feel them, otherwise all my reaching and the goodness that I'm trying so very hard to give becomes lost – falls to the muddy ground instead of reaching the bright sky.
To see takes time.
--Georgia O'Keeffe
I came upon a slim fountain gushing from an unseeable center, as high as it could, reaching without arms until it ran out of reach, and at its closest to the sky...
It does not only take time to see, but also to hear and understand. It also takes an abandonment of preconceptions and your own expectations to do so properly... to see and hear something for what it is, not for what you think it is, (or want or don't want it to be), because we live our lives in the wake of our own experiences, and sometimes they bring false or erroneous impressions or understandings to what is actually being done, said or intended..
I'm sick of being second guessed. I'm tired of being misunderstood, and I don't need words or actions or intentions to be put into my mouth... because the ones I intended are already there.
It just takes a moment to see them, hear them and feel them, otherwise all my reaching and the goodness that I'm trying so very hard to give becomes lost – falls to the muddy ground instead of reaching the bright sky.
