Noticing

Have you ever looked at your whole life, thoughts, desires, motives, and behavior, without trying to change any of it? Not to become this or that, but to see everything as it is? When one notices these things, one may find that an immense change happens naturally and without effort. We are trained to intellectualize experiences during work and school, but beauty comes into being when the mind is still, and there is no separation between what is being observed and the one who observes. Can you see the person across from you just as they are, the flowers as you walk past them, and the magnificent sunset without your labels or interpretations? To meet the world fresh each day is freedom.

-S.L