Denial
All in one breath denial confesses helplessness and claims omnipotence.
Denial goes to different lengths and depths depending on our inner psychological circumstances. Sometimes denial can simply veil an unpleasant reality, still allowing us to work on the problems posed by the shape so draped. In fact, it may help us to do the work we need to do by lowering the intensity of our response. If denial goes deeper, it may seriously compromise our capacity not just to deal with this aspect of reality, but with all that are like it or remind us of it.
Denial is always evidence based: it takes unacceptable evidence of what we already know to be true to provoke it.
Life goes by in the blink of an eye. This is why so many of us refuse to open our eyes at all. We apply a theory very familiar to all misers, who believe that their satisfactions are increased by an absolute refusal to spend. They live poorly and die poorly. Even so, we try to deny that we are alive in the hope that this will postpone or prevent our deaths.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNA is I and…
A
A, the indefinite article, opens the door to definition.
Accommodation
Accommodation can be the camouflage that lets us live safely behind enemy lines.
Presence
Now is the illusion that endures. Now is all that ever was or will be. Now is the currency of forever.
That something simply is, be it a flower, a rock, a frog or a puddle of water is the deepest reservoir of mystery.
We never make another discovery as momentous as our discovery of our presence to and in ourselves as very small children.
A nourishing presence is one that flourishes within itself without needing to compete.
Once we recognize the face in the mirror, we can see through it. The mirror becomes a window that gives on earth, sky and others.
We are most ourselves when we least suspect.