Blind Spot

Everyday, I must ask myself,

What is my Source? From what inner place am I living my life?

(Source of the River Cuervo, Cuenca Province, Spain)

”The best in art and life comes from a center – something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that’s very hard to do.” (Roger Rosenblatt)

“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.”

Two people can act or interact or react in the same way in similar situations BUT the results are never the same. Because what really matters is the interior condition, the motivation, the intention, the Source from which each person is acting. One person can say something to someone and they become outraged. Another person can say something very similar and they are comforted. It is not so much what we say or do or even how we say it or do it. What matters is why we say and do the things that we do. 

What is the Source of my attention and of my intention?

My most basic intention of writing is to shine a spotlight of awareness on my blind spot; the place from which my attention and intention originates and emanates; my interior condition, my source. I need to remember this each and every day; because through lack of consciousness, lack of awareness, by default this is the human blind spot.

What we do and how we do what we do are small matters compared to our state of being, our presence, our mindfulness, that engulfs the why of what we do and how we do what we do. This is our Source.

Oh love that fires the sun, keep me burning.