A NEW WAY OF SEEING

It seems we spend a lot of our waking hours each day misleading ourselves. We race through continuous moments, fixated on a pinpoint on the road ahead, blurring out the peripheral view and, most importantly, ignoring our insight.

I see Insight as the ability we have to objectively evaluate our self as we really are.

We all have insight, but we don't take it out of its carry case and exercise it as often as we could.

Here's the thing: until you have full, honest and accurate insight into yourself, you have no insight into anyone or anything else. You could even be projecting your ignorance onto those who don't deserve it.

As my Dad used to say - "If you're not sure, keep it to yourself." At least until you've applied the mirror test. Who was it who once said "Don't try to take a splinter out of someone's eye until you've first taken the dirty great plank out of your own!" Who was that? Didn't the same guy on another occasion stop a lynch mob by saying "Let the anyone here who's never stuffed up, let him throw the first rock."? I don't think he got any takers, did he? No. A blinding moment of insight was had by all, and their world shifted on its axis.

Insight can do the same for you, too.

If you ever hope to discover Truth, you must begin with:-

1. A new way of seeing, cleared of hocus-pocus and spin.
2. Setting up a "Maybe Tray" in which everything you know, believe or hang on to gets a question mark until it's subjected to the test of challenging experience. Even then, attach a stick-it note to remind you -- "Subject to possible change".
3. Embracing all you see.
4. Telling the truth about it, at least to yourself. If you have to lie, at least admit (tell the truth) that you're lying.

If you find yourself avoiding the full impact of a truth, know that you are devaluating yourself, and stand in the question – "Why? What is it I'm really avoiding here?"

And take what you get, when you get it.