Clear Vision

"Detail from 'Homage to Botticelli' by Laura Basha"

CLEAR VISION

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.

Who looks outside, dreams.

Who looks inside, awakens."

~ Carl Jung

“ The willingness to “deal” with the inner transmutation process, the willingness to deal with one’s inauthenticities and one’s own inner egoic status quo … is the true work, and once undertaken, the Infinite Intelligence inherent [with]in … unfolds us. …

Listening from the Silence within allows for wisdom to be shared in exactly the way it is needed in any given moment. …This is the process of awakening to the true self, awakening to self-actualization. …  all such evolution takes place from Center to circumference.

When we come from this knowing of who we are as true self, we can be bold. And the boldness comes, not from fear or arrogance, but from the clarity born of listening to Wisdom with humility. Add to this the ability of not taking the pressure of …our own internal habitual thought system … personally, and [one] is supported in … [developing] a depth of compassionate understanding. … the physics of a higher vibrational rate catalyzes the lower vibrational rate of the instruments around it, the resonance of the state of mind of a person aligning with the resonance of the Silence catalyzes the health in oneself, in another person, as well as in an entire system. …

The true mystic wears no armband advertising such. And the true mystic … walks through … all arenas of life: as homemaker, line worker, poet, teacher, student, elder, child. At any age, any gender, any role in life experience, any cultural or educational background, the true mystic emanates a serene countenance, listening from the cues of Infinite Intelligence, Omniscient Wisdom, and Omnipotent Love.

One with Silence is the majority.”

~ excerpt from The Inward Outlook, by Laura Basha, pp. 74&75

Winter Reflection

Sky View Over Hoch Taurus Nature Park, Villmar, Hesse, Germany, September 2015

Winter Reflection

“Inner questioning from sincere desire to understand is one way to develop. The questions themselves are the precursors to the answers. It is the answer, the realization or insight that desires to be revealed to conscious cognitive awareness, that is the catalyst for the question, and so subsequently takes the form of the question. As this occurs, answers are unveiled, and understanding deepens.

This deeper understanding reveals how to keep one’s bearings and results in a serene demeanor and attitude, thus affecting the environment through which one walks. To return to the tuning fork analogy, the vibrational rate of a tuning fork initiates the same vibrational rate of sound in another tuning fork, alignment with the Wisdom of the Silence allows us to flow within Its lighthearted resonance. This catalyzes the same lighthearted feeling in another, with the subtlety of being “no big deal.” When something desirable is no big deal, there isn’t much to resist—in fact, it’s quite the opposite.

What gets catalyzed in another by one who is aligned with the Silence is energetic, vibrational resonance. The thinking that is then awakened in that other is insight that the other is seeking. This is not a personal manipulation of any sort. The resonance of the Silence, through one aligned with the Silence, catalyzes in another the answers to the questions the other is asking, even if those questions are not conscious.

There is a physics to it, a vibrational awakening that is gentle. It is irresistible in that it doesn’t engage the personal thought process, but rather it awakens within a person the Impersonal Thought of Infinite Intelligence available to all human beings. This Infinite Intelligence takes the form of whatever thought is needed to reveal the relevant solution, the answer to the query in which one’s self or another is engaged. Nothing need be analyzed within one’s self for such a solution. And for a person in the presence of one aligned with the Silence, no words need be exchanged between the two for the other person to see a relevant solution to their own issue.”

~ from The Inward Outlook, by Laura Basha, PhD; Chapter VII, “The Silence”, pp 68-69

SIMPLICITY

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SIMPLICITY

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have been reflecting on simplicity for some time. Simplicity seems to be on many people’s minds, these days especially. Life experience can become so busy that it occurs to us as complex and as needing urgency to address every issue that comes up.

In my reflections as well as my investigative readings, what keeps coming back to me is a common thread that runs through the tapestry of all the commitments I have made, and then subsequently experience as demands on my time! I have often made commitments and choices without thinking through the entire picture of the issue or the ramifications of the choice. This results in the experience of living a complex life.

If I look at de-cluttering my home as an example, I can see that when I make a new purchase, I don’t always think through how useful it will truly be, so I often add to a collection of lovely-but-not-very-useful items already existing in our home.

When I look at my schedule, I see that I sometimes say “yes” to commitments without really looking at the entire use of hours in the day, or week, or month, or even year. I don’t ask myself in the moment of the commitment, have I given myself enough resting time to experience balance in my day/week/life?!

When I look at wanting to drop a few pounds, am I consciously choosing what food to put into my system that will actually contribute to having a body weight in which I feel most comfortable, or am I choosing to eat what feels compelling at the moment but not designed to accomplish my larger goal?

What I see now is that all of the issues to deal with around simplifying my life come down to one issue: being clear and purposeful regarding what I want, and being disciplined in remembering what I want.

Ah, discipline!! Such a contaminated word! Seems like acquiescing to coercion rather than creating a desired outcome. But, what if discipline was really simply remembering what we want?

I am left with a deepening of understanding of this concept of simplicity: that simplicity is the result of consciously choosing. Being present to the implications and ramifications of a choice, I then need to deal with the resistance that arises internally when I stay true to the larger picture.

Discipline is indeed remembering what I want, and I can see the added value gained from living a life of conscious discipline, conscious choice. Consciously remembering what I want, and choosing accordingly, allows for a letting go which syncronistically unveils simplicity.