Today's
Meditation:
If
we live in such a wonderful world, then why don't we
always see it as such? Is it the world's doing when
we see it as being cruel or harsh, or is it our own
doing? The fact is that the world is indeed full of
beauty, charm and adventure, but sometimes we get so used
to seeing things in certain ways that we forget how to see
the wonder. Children are very good at seeing the
charm and the wonder, but we adults seem to have lost our
ability to see the wonderful world around us, except
through our learned filters of judgment and criticism.
I
love to watch little kids look at the world. They
seem to see so much more than we adults do, and they
really seem to SEE things, recognizing the wonder and
potential in a puppy, a tree, another person, or a mud
puddle. Sometimes I think that we get so caught up
in keeping our clothes clean that we forget that much of
the adventure that we can find in the world requires us to
get a little dirty-- or even a lot dirty! Sometimes
we have to stop doing things that are comfortable to us in
order to step out of ourselves and take a risk.
There
really is no end to the potential that this world has for
us-- it's a marvelous, though completely underused planet. And the people who use it the most,
unfortunately, seem to want to use it for profit rather
than for adventure. Perhaps if more of us sought the
adventure that this world offers us, we could restore some
of the balance in our lives, the balance between being
grounded and dreaming. And we couild restore some of
the balance to a neglected planet, the balance between
being used in healthy and fulfilling ways and being used
for profit. It's an amazing world here-- and it's
ours while we're here! Shouldn't that be enough?
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