| I Slowed Down Today |
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| Laa'iqah - The Seed Sower | |||
| Monday, 12 June 2006 | |||
I slowed down today. I stopped in the midst of the insanity around me, the insanity inside me and listened. I listened beyond the harshness of the false air I am made to breathe in. I listen beyond the screaming phones, the fast, irate footsteps. The soft ruffles of the straight, starched suits of the people that walk by. I listened. My breathing has always been a comfort to my ears. The soft rise and fall of my breast as my mechanical exchange of life occurs in the backdrop of what my existence here has become, or at least what it should be for these few hours that I am made to be still in this controlled world. My mental prison. Mmmm I listened and heard what was always there, but grew faint as I forgot to listen, forgot my value, forgot my inner strength and unlimited power. I listened and heard that there are still so many doors that the universe is willing to open for me, if I am just to see them, if I am just to venture beyond my comfort zone, beyond my created reality, which is in fact my created illusion. I listen today more than any other day and I so enjoyed what I heard, felt and saw. When you stand behind your waterfall, counting the drops as they fall to the pool below… move out from behind the majesty of the fall and embrace each drop, ensuring that they have touched you, before reaching their destiny. Their pool below. How much longer will you be counting the drops and not touch them? Will you forever hear and not listen? You are a remarkable soul, not just because of what you have or want to have or what you think you know, but because you were destined to be here, in this era for a certain moment within it, so embrace those drops, those moments and listen. Listen to the pulsations of your existence and know their value. Your value.
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