Thought
I believe in the power of thought, the importance of language, the impact of words. Many times I have manifested the outcome of a situation. Today I read in the Tao that unless properly train the fire of the intellect we will be consumed by endless thoughts about endless thoughts and so on leading to exhaustion and worse. What do you think about? And what do you think about what you think about? How much time are you in your head and can you bring that energy into the heart and also lower down into the center? Everything takes practice. Guides and adversaries abound, welcome each one with gratitude, acknowledging who and what they each are for you. I am not just thinking about doing the same.
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Earlier this week artist James Jean shared this 1991 photograph by Makoto Aida ending his description of the other artist’s practice as saying that they “suffer from the same affliction of never wanting to do the same thing twice.” What I know is that even if sometimes something or someone looks or feels like something or someone else, it always still has the opportunity to be uniquely itself. Look closely to make sure what you are seeing is actually what or who you assumed it was, especially knowing that everything we think and say are only reflections of ourselves.
