There are so many things to be grateful for. If you stand silent and still for just a moment and let the world pass by you as it will ... the beginning of the list comes in for you. Sometimes the list starts high at the clouds. Sometimes the list starts low at the earth. Sometimes the list begins at eye level at the leaves on a tree. Sometimes you hear the list develope as a hummingbirds wings propel a hummingbird past you. Sometimes the list is written in your arms as you hold onto a loved one. Sometimes the list stands in front of you as someone dear to you smiles. Sometimes the list starts early in the day and doesn't stop until late at night.
There is always a list to compile.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Listen ...
There really is a sound to silence and such important things can be sensed when no noise is being made.
As well ... when silence is broken you should listen to and sense the sound.
When someone speaks we should try to press into and pull from what they are saying. When someone speaks ... as opposed to when someone talks ... there is a difference and usually if you are paying attention you notice the shift in your own awareness as you get a little nudge from your better judgment self saying ... "LISTEN".
There as so many quotes, phrases and proverbs about listening. I don't need to list them. We should all have at least one favorite quote on listening and we should live by it as often as possible. One of my favorites is from the corporate America guru, Stephan Covey. To paraphrase he says "seek first to understand, then to be understood". This one takes listening to the point of feeling what you are hearing.
The senses have always been listed as if they fall under one category yet if we look at their range ... to see, to taste, to smell, to touch (feel), and this subject is to hear ... shouldn't we do them all at the same time ... consciously. After all, we can so we should.
As well ... when silence is broken you should listen to and sense the sound.
When someone speaks we should try to press into and pull from what they are saying. When someone speaks ... as opposed to when someone talks ... there is a difference and usually if you are paying attention you notice the shift in your own awareness as you get a little nudge from your better judgment self saying ... "LISTEN".
There as so many quotes, phrases and proverbs about listening. I don't need to list them. We should all have at least one favorite quote on listening and we should live by it as often as possible. One of my favorites is from the corporate America guru, Stephan Covey. To paraphrase he says "seek first to understand, then to be understood". This one takes listening to the point of feeling what you are hearing.
The senses have always been listed as if they fall under one category yet if we look at their range ... to see, to taste, to smell, to touch (feel), and this subject is to hear ... shouldn't we do them all at the same time ... consciously. After all, we can so we should.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
with wide wings ...
Crow flew in this evening to drink from the large cobalt blue water bowl in my yard. His timing was impeccable (for me) as I had just stepped to the window to breath in some cool, fresh air. I was thinking hard thoughts about the human to human betrayal that we find on the path to Spirit ... on the path TO Spirit not on the path OF Spirit.
Crow was beautiful with his shining black wings, darker than black and his strong profile. He was full of grace as he spiraled his wide wing span into the small area where the bowl sits. He landed on the edge of the bowl with precision placement. He then wrapped his wings around his body and he lengthened his spine and stretched his tail feathers like a conductor gaining the composure of an orchestra.
Crow leaned down into the bowl and drank a few long draws of water and then rested at the edge of the bowl. Crow leaned down into the bowl again and drank more water before resting a bit more. All at once without any effort he rose out of the small area at the bowl and into the sky. I was honored to have been at the window at this time.
I went back to my thoughts of betrayal and wondered if Crow had interrupted my thoughts for a reason. I often think animals interrupt our thoughts for a reason so I went in a different direction into my mind, away from betrayal and into what I was to learn from Crow's visit.
Crow medicine is LAW and sacred law at that. Crow medicine teaches us to pause and witness how we see things in relation to a higher order of right and wrong. With Crow medicine you honor a higher sense of harmony and therefore you are more sensitive to the lack of harmony. You easily recognize when things are out of balance or unjust.
Human law is not sacred law, leaving way to betrayal even on the path TO Spirit. We are eager to move forward on Spirit's path and our human condition gets in the way, our own way many times and the way of others. It is not always betrayal but it is usually a lack of full site and often a lack of insight.
Crow is a master at shape shifting and being in two places at once. Doubling or being two places at once is the gift of Crow medicine. Prior to Crow's visit I was in two places at once. The place where I thought a betrayal was and the place that I was standing at the window watching Crow. Crow slowed me down to take this time to realize that I am not betrayed. I was informed by Crow that others who have shared my path for a step or two ... at times ... lack full site and ... at times ... lack insight too.
Didn't I lack full site and insight (about betrayal) ... before Crow's visit?
Crow was beautiful with his shining black wings, darker than black and his strong profile. He was full of grace as he spiraled his wide wing span into the small area where the bowl sits. He landed on the edge of the bowl with precision placement. He then wrapped his wings around his body and he lengthened his spine and stretched his tail feathers like a conductor gaining the composure of an orchestra.
Crow leaned down into the bowl and drank a few long draws of water and then rested at the edge of the bowl. Crow leaned down into the bowl again and drank more water before resting a bit more. All at once without any effort he rose out of the small area at the bowl and into the sky. I was honored to have been at the window at this time.
I went back to my thoughts of betrayal and wondered if Crow had interrupted my thoughts for a reason. I often think animals interrupt our thoughts for a reason so I went in a different direction into my mind, away from betrayal and into what I was to learn from Crow's visit.
Crow medicine is LAW and sacred law at that. Crow medicine teaches us to pause and witness how we see things in relation to a higher order of right and wrong. With Crow medicine you honor a higher sense of harmony and therefore you are more sensitive to the lack of harmony. You easily recognize when things are out of balance or unjust.
Human law is not sacred law, leaving way to betrayal even on the path TO Spirit. We are eager to move forward on Spirit's path and our human condition gets in the way, our own way many times and the way of others. It is not always betrayal but it is usually a lack of full site and often a lack of insight.
Crow is a master at shape shifting and being in two places at once. Doubling or being two places at once is the gift of Crow medicine. Prior to Crow's visit I was in two places at once. The place where I thought a betrayal was and the place that I was standing at the window watching Crow. Crow slowed me down to take this time to realize that I am not betrayed. I was informed by Crow that others who have shared my path for a step or two ... at times ... lack full site and ... at times ... lack insight too.
Didn't I lack full site and insight (about betrayal) ... before Crow's visit?
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Correction ...
Crystals ... in my 'shot from a cannon' posting I said I have crystals all over my garden. I have crystals everywhere. They are all over my home, in windows, on toilets tanks, in my rock collection .... yeap, one of those folks who collects rocks here. I collect crystals too. Got any extra crystals? I will take them.
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