I heard someone this week state, "The more I experience the more I realize I know nothing." It is one of the wisdoms of growing older. I step away from those teenage years when I knew everything. Every day now I find something else I don't know. But I also have to be very careful that I don't get looked into a frozen mind. This is the 'starting to believe the I am doing things is the only way to do things.' This leads to avoiding change and new things and adapting to a world that is always changing.
I also realize the older I get the quieter I get. It is my mantra to respond instead of react. When I was younger I was easily triggered by so many things. When the trigger hit in a situation suddenly I was way down the road and I had gone through an almost automatic reaction. But after a long time of self-exploration it is now a new sequence that occurs. A trigger occurs and I respond by slipping right into the Buddhist mind of the observer. I look and in my mind I flow into "Wait a minute, I've been triggered! This is very interesting and I notice that my neck is flushed and I am very emotional." Then I take my time to figure out what my response will be.
What a world this is! Each day is a grand new adventure. We watch and we learn so much. In order to maintain the balance and calm, we must continue to connect deeply with heart and spirituality.
The difficulty is of coursse our ego-filled chaos based world. It is filled with the dark side of the duality of man. The great part of this is that because love always trumps the dark side in the end spirituality, pureness, and love burst out all over.
It is much like Peter Pan's Tinkerbell. There was a point in the movie where Tinkerbell was sick. It was determined she was sick because fewer and fewet people where believing in her. So there came a point when Peter asked the movie audience to believe in Tinkerbell. People responded and Tinkerbell was healed.
This is the truth of spirituality and love. When it breaks out it is our job to recognize it. I actually believe it is not the exception but the rule. It is just that we don't always recognize it so then comes Tinkerbell time. "I believe; I believe; I believe!" This kind of affirmation can change the world or at least our world.
Many years ago Rev. Denese Schellnik gave a Sunday sermon at Spiritual Life Center. She was talking about the power of affirmations and how it impacts us when we believe. So there were two services of some 200 people at each service that Sunday morning. At one point she had the audience chant, "Change! Bring it on; bring it on; bring it on!"
The result of course in the following months was huge change everywhere in the church and in the lives of people who attended the services that Sunday. But how could we expect anything different when we were putting out that energy into the universe. The universe rushed to fulfill our affirmation - in so many different ways, some totally unexpected.
So our job is to proceed ahead with a new mind to explore and be open to the next experiences to fill in the gap of not knowing. Each day I am amazed at the new things I learn. My dialysis is three times a week and each day is a new adventure each time. Some part of the process occurs which I never saw coming. Yet there is so much more I don't know..........sometimes the most dangerous situation occurs when I don't know what I don't know, So overall after re-reading this blog, I just don't know. But God does so all is good!
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