The Moments...

 

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"The moments of real suffering are very short, 

but we do sometimes have a sudden vision 

of what we are really like 

and that is great suffering, 

but there is a curious thing about it: 

it can turn to a kind of BLISS…

after the suffering you have bliss. 

There are not so many moments, 

but they are precious and they stand out." 

~Maurice Nicoll

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Being Metamorphosis

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Recently, I had an experience where I saw

a familiar scenario unfolding, and then

suddenly it was as if I used the "stop" exercise,

and everything rearranged itself into a

different view, a new meaning.

And I could make the choice to act in a

different way, responding to a better level

of understanding. And in a few words,

I was able to diffuse a possible argument

I might have had, and give a deeper more

compassionate response, which went in a

very productive direction.

An example, perhaps, of new being?

Born of long observation, perhaps?

All of a sudden the pieces of the kaleidoscope

fell into a lovely pattern of understanding,

and the possible struggle was released into a

new realm of action through this new understanding.

Maurice Nicoll would say that the new

understanding (metanoia) gave birth to

being (metamorphosis.)

~J

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EXTERNAL CONSIDERING

“EXTERNAL CONSIDERING" I have taken it

as a phrase for so long but actually became 

so excited to see it really happening in real 

present time! 

I am remembering something that happened 

the other day with someone in life and 

it was a lovely photograph. As I opened 

to this person that was complaining bitterly 

about a few things, my personality became 

invisible, and a sense of BEING, my truer self, 

surrounded me like an invisible circle and 

then I felt it go towards that person and 

include them in it.

It really felt as if just this gift of presence 

was releasing them and freeing them from 

their I'S and allowing a flow of 'inclusivity" 

of warmness. 

As often is the case, I didn’t see it then in the moment. 

I did feel it though. It was later as I reflected 

on this situation that the realization occurred 

by being silent within, maybe smiling or nodding, 

not looking or seeming like I’m "intriguing or different". 

I am allowing and giving space for that person to 

"ADJUST" THEMSELVES.

~C

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