Everyone needs help
finding their life
and living it.
Finding the way
to living their life.
Some guidance.
Some direction.
Some encouragement.
Some support.
Some purpose.
Who are we?
How did we get here?
Why are we here?
What are we supposed to be doing
with the time left for living?
What is life for?
We are lost and alone
without a support system
to take us under their care
and listen us along the way.
Listening is the key.
Too many of our support systems
take it to be their place
to tell us what to do,
just as their support systems
told them what to do.
Support systems need to be trained
to do their job.
But who will do the training?
No one knows what is going on.
And one person's opinion
is no better than another's.
But, listening to one another
opens us to the adventure
of being alive,
and guides us through all of the
transition points
by enabling us to listen to ourselves.
And when we listen to ourselves,
we are listening to the experience
of the species,
and more than the species,
of life itself.
Native Americans
and all indigenous peoples
know the importance of listening
to life in all forms of life.
Life is speaking to us all of the time.
Who is listening to what life has to say?
We listen by opening ourselves
to the emptiness, stillness and silence,
being present with what is present with us there,
and waiting for what arises/emerges/appears
to meet us.
Engaging it by listening,
wondering,
experiencing,
reflecting,
realizing,
following,
aligning,
being,
becoming,
feeling,
sensing,
knowing what we know
and how much we don't know.
The emptiness/stillness/silence
creates within us
"the condition of receptivity,"
enabling us to be attuned to,
aligned with,
that which knows what's what
and how to live in response
in each situation as it arises,
knowing beyond knowledge,
beyond understanding,
beyond being able to explain
what we know and how we know it,
but responding as dancers to the dance,
to the music,
to the moment,
in doing what needs to be done,
spontaneously,
in accord with time and place,
time after time.
All because we know how to listen.
To ourselves,
to the species,
to all of life.
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
“Life is speaking to us all of the time.” In other words, nothing that happens is ever wasted, if we can listen to it, see it, understand it, with the right attitude. Then no matter what it is, we can learn something from it, or at the least- gain some clarity, which can be helpful moving forward. But more often than not, we resist and stand in defence or offence, to whatever we perceive a threat to our acquired beliefs. We miss the life showing to us what it is, in its million forms, every day at each moment. We walk with blinders through life, never noticing what is always right here! Because we are afraid that it may disturb, what we think we already know.
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Well said! And, I’ll add, we constantly push, push, push to implement Our Way at the expense of all other ways and concerns, and often, if not always, pay the price of our single-minded devotion to serving our will.
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