We have to befriend our inner resources in order to give ourselves the best chance of giving each situation as it arises the best we have to offer--which begins with "Peaceful abiding, here, now."
D.T Suzuki said the term "enlightenment" is synonymous with "habitual intuition." How are we living to enhance our relationship with our intuition? Where are we pushing our way through life and where are we waiting to see/hear/feel our way from one point to another?
Intuition and inner peace, inner consciousness, inner knowing are of the same ilk. Time spent daily in the presence of our selves, so that we learn to know "Yes" and "No" without knowing "Why," or how we know. "Yes" and "No" can be spontaneous, instantaneous with those who are one with themselves. Having to "think about" whether something "is us" or "is not us," is an indication that our "inner light" might be burning on dim, and we might look for ways to turn it up (Something the church could have done for us instead of handing us the Catechism, but don't get me started).
PS. I asked the stock photo agency I’ve just started working with if they had an interest in bird photos. They replied that they were “very interested.”
When I retired in 2011, I spent my time at the Bog Garden in Greensboro, NC, waiting for my wife to retire in 2013, taking photos of birds because I love taking pictures of birds. Sometimes things work out that way. And if it had not worked out this way, I still got to do what I loved. No?
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