Do you ever
feel challenged
by what comes your way?
Do you ever
take time
to observe your
thinking and reactions?
Do you ever
pay attention
to the diet you feed your mind?
Do you ever
hold your feelings
up to the light
and see
a different way?
I do.
And that’s why I can tell you…
The effort feels like training your mind for an iron man competition.
I’ve been MIA from BFN for over a week.
I’d like to tell you I’ve been busy saving toads,
yet the only toad I’ve been saving is myself.
Last night as I watched people filled with anger, sparked by fear, burning and looting, I couldn’t help but think, There’s got to be a better way. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
At my dinner table I’m told I’m an idealist.
That another way is not possible.
If we cannot see possible, are we doomed to Groundhog Day,
repeating the same missteps time and time again?
This idealist sees evolution as revolution inside ourselves—not out there.
My mind diet last week included The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger—an Auschwitz survivor who shares her personal revolution.
Perhaps you’re interested?
Welcome thoughts as always. I've been pondering the current circumstances - protests, violence, and a vacuum of "I/Thou" behavior. An incident from much longer ago that captures a different way of being was Robert F. Kennedy's announcement of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination upon hearing the news. Delivered at a campaign rally in 1968, only to be followed by his own assassination just months later. Then there is John Lennon, who sang, "You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join me. And the World will live as one." He, too, assassinated. To muster the sense that we aren't really as different, as humans, as we think we are is a tall order of business. Indeed an inside job! Thanks for the inspiration.