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chelidonAfter this past week, I am incredibly grateful to be reminded of the importance of mentors, as well as peers and friends in my life. Spending precious time with someone who is all three, well, that's an even greater blessing, due even deeper gratitude.
I remain convinced that the longer you delve into the Work, the more important it becomes to seek out and pay attention to those who offer clear external perspectives, to find and listen to those who can peer around the twists and bends and shine light into one's blind spots and dark crevices. And, upon occasion, ask the hard questions, issue the hard challenges, and help me laugh at myself by laughing at and with me. Hmmph, and ha ha, *very* funny. Yes, it is, oh it is.
And even here (perhaps especially here), reciprocity, even energetic exchange, giving and taking, gifts and obligations, keeping it all in balance. We learn as we teach, we teach as we learn. We all hold pieces of the infinite, deliciously splendid and baffling puzzle -- all of us are facets of what it means to be truly, deeply human, and carry pieces of what it is to be god. We are all signposts, lessons, allies for each other, and we walk through a world full of symbols, signs, meanings layered beneath meaning. Often we provide meaning for others without intending to, or find meaning for ourselves in the most unlikely of places. It's there to be seen, if we open our eyes and see. At least some of the answers are to be had for the asking, if we remember to ask. At least some of the secrets are carried freely on the wind, if we open our ears to hear. At least some of the truths can be tasted, smelled, touched, sensed...if we desire it. One of the roles teachers, friends, mentors, peers, can have is to remind us to desire the truths, remind us to open our eyes, ears, mouths, hands, to open up to what is there waiting for us all the time, if we desire, if we dare.
As I hunger for meaning, may I have true mirrors, friends, signposts, mentors, allies and loves around me, to help bring ever-deeper, ever-richer meaning to my life. And may it be so for all of us who wish it.
I remain convinced that the longer you delve into the Work, the more important it becomes to seek out and pay attention to those who offer clear external perspectives, to find and listen to those who can peer around the twists and bends and shine light into one's blind spots and dark crevices. And, upon occasion, ask the hard questions, issue the hard challenges, and help me laugh at myself by laughing at and with me. Hmmph, and ha ha, *very* funny. Yes, it is, oh it is.
And even here (perhaps especially here), reciprocity, even energetic exchange, giving and taking, gifts and obligations, keeping it all in balance. We learn as we teach, we teach as we learn. We all hold pieces of the infinite, deliciously splendid and baffling puzzle -- all of us are facets of what it means to be truly, deeply human, and carry pieces of what it is to be god. We are all signposts, lessons, allies for each other, and we walk through a world full of symbols, signs, meanings layered beneath meaning. Often we provide meaning for others without intending to, or find meaning for ourselves in the most unlikely of places. It's there to be seen, if we open our eyes and see. At least some of the answers are to be had for the asking, if we remember to ask. At least some of the secrets are carried freely on the wind, if we open our ears to hear. At least some of the truths can be tasted, smelled, touched, sensed...if we desire it. One of the roles teachers, friends, mentors, peers, can have is to remind us to desire the truths, remind us to open our eyes, ears, mouths, hands, to open up to what is there waiting for us all the time, if we desire, if we dare.
As I hunger for meaning, may I have true mirrors, friends, signposts, mentors, allies and loves around me, to help bring ever-deeper, ever-richer meaning to my life. And may it be so for all of us who wish it.
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Date: 2005-08-10 05:43 pm (UTC)Thank you.