Life through the eyes of a Master's student of Transpersonal Psychology. Transpersonal Psychology- the study of reaching beyond all personal limitation into the realm of potentiality, spiritual unity, and achieving optimum health of mental, emotional, and behavioral states of being.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tasting the sweetness of life
We can learn from sitting in the company of the
trees how to be rooted, flexible, and strong. We can learn from
observing the ocean tides how to go with the flow of life and allow
our experiences and emotions to move through us without resistance or
struggle. We can learn from the stillness and expansiveness of air to
allow our minds to be free and open. We can learn from other animals
how to be wild and true to our own nature. We can learn from the
untamed wilderness, of our own inner untamed wilderness. We can learn
from the sea moss that lives on the tree branches that dip into ocean
during high tide that we are a part of a web of interconnected life,
and that we need others in order to survive and thrive in the world.
We can learn through observing a fruit bearing plant that we are all
born to fulfill a purpose, and that with space to grow, caring
attention, a forgiving environment, water, and the proper nutrients
we will bear the fruits of our labor. We can learn from spending time
with a family pet of the inherent need in all of us to receive love
and affection, and the capacity within all of us to give and receive
love unconditionally. We can learn from the yards and gardens of our
neighbors of our desire to create beauty and wilderness all around us
and tend to others with care and attention. We can learn from the
birds of our freedom to move and sing aloud our true song. We can
learn so much if we just open our ears, our eyes, and our hearts to
the consciousness of each living and non-living thing all around us.
If only we could stop for a moment to step outside the flow of our
own thoughts to be in communion with all that surrounds us in each
moment, could we taste the sweetness of what it is to be alive in
this world. Each moment is a gift and an opportunity to love and
engage more fully with the world, and to see ourselves and others as
a loving God would see.
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ReplyDeleteI love the last line-see ourselves and others as a loving God would see us...that would really help all of us.
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