February 28, 2023
See yourself as the lighthouse looking at the ocean of your emotions. I heard this metaphor in one podcast today. It is such a good way of putting things into perspective and making a shift in thinking. We always internalize our emotions and try to hide them. Once we turn around like a lighthouse and scan the view before us, much comes to light. It gets me thinking. Just like the outside forces affect the water’s surface, making it turbulent and rough, we experience similar waters. Rough and turbulent. Why can’t we switch on the lights and look? Look, and let it all go, pass away. Stand there observing, bringing to light everything in its transitoriness. Darkness, after all, is nothing but an absence of light. We are here momentarily. So are all the ocean waves. They come, they go. We ought to stay afloat, nevertheless.
January 22, 2023
Each of us gets handed a blank canvas; the moment we get this life. Each one gets a different set of supplies—some limited, some unlimited, and some none. We begin with random mark-making, scribbling on the way, and using whatever comes in our supply list. We also learn to create our supplies and grow fond of certain few. Some never begin. They don’t like to paint. They want life to keep happening and filling it up for them. They want to be the critics and not like what gets painted in front of them. Then others feel battered when their canvases are tossed over and sometimes even torn apart. They still get up and patch up the tears with whatever they can lay their hands on. They then proudly carry the canvas wherever they go and, bit by bit, add more marks and lines to the landscape of life. Some are natural-born artists, while some learn it on the way. Some love what they create, while some do not so much. Nevertheless, we all have to take care of this canvas and sign it sincerely before handing it back to the Great Master.
January 15, 2023
Over time what we create either gets better or worse. There is always a time when we can pause and shift. A slight change in the right direction, a little nudge, will make a big difference someday. Knowing that to be true, root for change, good change, that is. Little by little, a little grows big.
