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This brief dance

Posted on by philipdodson

There is always a little something we hold back from the world. Why? Fear.

Sometimes, for many, there is more than a little, there is nearly all of our true essence that we fear to reveal. The suffering comes from the holding back, from the waiting, from the ‘shall I?’…’no better not’.

Revealing our true self means going deep into the wild, to be on the edge, to risk it all…what are we all waiting for?

This brief dance on the stage is all we have, it’s very brief, and we fear the audience. A blink and it’s gone.

Leap, dance, sing, jump…go crazy, do whatever that beautiful amazing inner essence and soul wants to experience. Don’t wait the clock is ticking. No one cares and if they do, it doesn’t matter. Do and don’t think.

Nothing is the colour we think it is

Posted on by philipdodson

The sky isn’t blue or the grass isn’t green or the banana isn’t yellow or the sea isn’t light blue or the snow isn’t white. That is only how our mind sees things through its conditioning of what colours things are, it comes from school and early years.

The same thing with how we see people too. We label them and then we do not see them as they really are, we see them as the label and the judgement that goes with the label.

They speak and we do not hear them, the walk past and we instantly react within to them, a stranger that we’ve never met. We experience fear even based on what they might be wearing.

If we stop and just observe without engaging our mind, we actually see and we do not label or react. Then we realise that nothing is the colour we think, or the person, or event, that the label we created it to be.

Imagine a life where we actually saw…reality.