11-17-01, Sunday Journal, 537 words
Dance
By Dalton Roberts
IPS Features
From journal notes of
1989
In one of the Gnostic
gospels, Jesus said, "Dance. He who does not dance does not know what
happens."
If you can't dance, dance
anyway. If you're too self-conscious to dance with someone, dance with yourself.
Just put on some rock and roll and make it your exercise. Then ease your body
back by dancing a couple of waltzes.
Just this morning over
coffee my sister and I confided to each other that we dance alone. Who ever said
you had to dance good to have the right to dance? You ever said you had to walk
good to have the right to walk? What does it mean to walk or dance good? It
means only one thing worth knowing -- that you walk and dance like you walk and
dance.
Why would someone say you
don't know what happens if you don't dance? One reason is that when you are in a
state of extreme self-consciousness, you are unaware of anything around you. You
are self-focused. Locked into your own tiny little world. And locking out the
rest of the world.
On my computer I taped up
this saying: Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been
hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
TRANSFORMING A NUISANCE
From journal notes of
1993
David Walker said,
"Error is always changeable. It can be transformed from a lack and a
nuisance to a solution and a joy."
It's too personal for me
to tell but there was an item that had lost its significance to me because of
circumstances. It became a curse and a nuisance to me. Every time I'd look at
it, bad old memories would flood over me.
One day I sat down and
made friends with it. I asked it what was the higher spiritual meaning it held
for me, rather than the meaning I had been attaching to it. It took a while but
finally it revealed this higher meaning to me. It told me several things it had
meant to me and several new things it could mean to me. From that moment, it has
held a deep significance to me.
We invest people and
things with layers of meaning. All is a projecting out of our own inner values.
Nothing nor nobody has a single meaning to us. Everything and everyone means
different things to us. All we need to do is to explore those deeper and
higher meanings.
Would you want someone to
only see one facet of you and ignore all the many aspects of you that go into
making you who you are? No one would wish to be seen in such a tiny light. No
one wants to be just a sliver in someone's mind.
To see the many
meaningful textures of someone's mind, body and soul requires nothing more than
sitting quietly with them in your mind and simply opening to them. Each time you
see something new and different, you deepen and expand their beauty as well as
your own.
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