We’re all human beings, for instance, but we can start to put all sorts of words onto different humans – rich, poor, black, white, Arab, Christian, Pagan, evil, good, gay, straight, left, right. The problem with these words is that we can forget that all of these ‘different’ humans are still human beings. And many of us will treat people completely differently depending on which words we attach to them — regardless of what the person is actually like.

Kenton, you are so very right. I thought as I read this how I use labeling in my daily living. For example, I will discover that a person is conservative and I automatically think of negative traits I associate with that label. I automatically dislike the individual. But, if I think about it further and really examine how experience has shown me examples of people I knew to be conservative or to the right politically, I realize that when I think about the person - not the label - I remember all kinds of endearing things that I know them for. Be it that persons gentle nature, their smile, their respect for others or other attributes.

Now, I wonder how many beautiful people I have missed out on because of the very power of words and the feelings they evoke in us?

With your continuing efforts to share powerful messages with us you have made me examine and thus realize a way in which I am limiting my experiences in life.

This also points out in my mind another solid reason for living in the moment and just allowing the present to be a new and fresh breath of awareness of the flow of time, without prior associations clouding our perceptions.

We are beholding a cosmic dance, an everchanging show put on by the
One and only. If we are to really grow from the show we must let go.

The last line just came to me in the flow… hey sorry for all the rhymes : )

It is the screen of words, thoughts and ideas made from words, all just symbols of one type or another, that block direct direct experience of truth. Simply turning attention away from the mind, and its churning of symbols, back to directly experiencing what is here and now, is the secret.

All your posts are excellent, and an enjoyable informative read.

well done!

I loved your rhyme. =) Everything you wrote, actually, was a beautiful way of sharing your own experiences in a way that makes this tangible for everyone. I’ve very happy to hear that this article brought these things up for you — and to see that you brought so much out of the dance.

Sweetwater,
Kenton

Sweetwater,
Kenton