July 24th, 2006
At very infrequent times in our lives, nearly all of us experience brief and rare moments when we are hyper-aware of a situation ... a clarity that descends on us and is absorbed by us ... a pleasant shower of all-seeing light and life.
Of course, there are words for this: catharsis, or release, maybe even that ubiquitous word "closure".
To experience those rare moments of clarity is perhaps one of the most calming and life-enhancing experiences, if we let it be that way.
I'm no different from anyone else: I've had brief flashes of insight where I have seen the real truth of my life at the moment or my situation in the world at that time. Sometimes I have responded by ignoring (or running from) the experience ... and sometimes I have closed my eyes and listened to the message that percolates up, and then heeded it. Acted on my purging realisations.
Without exception, I have benefitted from those insights, even when I haven't consciously done anything about the new perspective. Simply having it is often enough to feel the winds of my life blowing the sails from a new direction.
As an analogy, I think of it in terms of a motorcyclist turning a corner. For reasons I cannot fathom, simply turning my head in the direction I want to turn, and looking past the point I am to the point I want to be, my motorcycle leans over and goes around that corner. Like magic; all I need is to know where I want to go, and the rest happens automatically.
Well, in life, it's not quite so easy, but there is a saying that 90% of life is just showing up (just "looking through" the turns we want to make), but there is still the 10% perspiration to make it come true. I guess the belief ... the envisioning that you can turn that corner is the majority of the change in direction.
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This has entered my mind today as such broad loose thoughts. I don't know why.
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