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Something In The Air
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In a
transformed
world
(which is to say in a
world
in which you and I are being
transformed),
we're never better (or worse) than: we're always the same as; we're
never different than: we're always the same as. It's an abstract
which is both profound and (if you will)
Zen-koanesque.
It's profound because it underlies everything. Then it's
Zen-koanesque
because it
works
in the realm of
who we really are.
It's this abstract which I've taken on, against which to fine-tune
my life ie against which to true*
my life. What I've taken on is being with people as
who they really are,
not letting whether or not they're
interested
in the same things in which I'm
interested,
get
in
the way.
There's a new insight I've
gotten
recently regarding any abstract like this which I take on from
time
to
time
ie any abstract against which I true my life. It's this: if I've
taken it on, it's probably a given there's something in the
air rendering it
timely
to take it on. And because none of us are really different (at
least in the realm of
who we really are),
it's likely you may have also taken it on at about the same time as
I did. If so, that would be
ordinary.
What would be
extra-ordinary
is: what if it isn't us who've taken it
on at all? What if it's it that's taken
us on instead?
These
moments
when there's something in the air which takes us all on at the same
time
ie which
uses
all of us, illustrate an aspect of life which in the
ordinary
course of events, simply isn't possible. Yet it, in the
extra-ordinary
course of events, can be deemed to be a
miracle
(a
miracle,
in
the way
Werner
distinguishes it, is
"something that
validates who you are rather than diminishes who you
are").
And when there's something in the air which takes us all on at the
same
time
ie which
uses
us, there's arguably only one thing we all have in
common
which can take us all on ie which can
use
us at the same
time,
and it's the
context
of
who we really are,
the being of
human being.
We make decisions about life ("They won't let me do what I want",
"I can't be free here", "This sucks" etc), then we build our lives
on these decisions.
Werner's work
creates
a chance
to re-examine the basis on which we make these decisions, then let
them up if they're no longer applicable, and build on new
possibilities instead. If I make such decisions, I assume they're
private,
individual anomalies. They're not. While their details and
circumstances are unique, making such decisions is
common
to each one of us. Such
private,
individual anomalies
get
new malleability when viewed from the maturer
view
of "all
humans
make them", rendering them easy to let up.
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