{"id":4333,"date":"2009-08-17T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T03:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2009-08-17T22:58:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T03:58:33","slug":"looking-past-what-is-to-see-what-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/looking-past-what-is-to-see-what-really-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Past What Is to See What Really Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You know that song Any Day Now by Ronnie Milsap <\/a>This favorite song has such a fun, upbeat tune and such sad words.\u00a0 It used to bother me, thinking I could no longer listen to it, so I would not “program” myself with “negative” input.\u00a0 Then I realized I didn’t have to make such a big deal of it.\u00a0 I could just assign different meanings to the words.\u00a0 Like living in the ashram and when we’d hear pop music, we’d change the love songs into songs to Krshna<\/a>. The song now is simply to the beloved who has found their way to The Beloved.\u00a0 No sadness and loss in being left by one who has a higher calling.\u00a0 And the same with another favorite song, Only the Lonely by Roy Orbison<\/a>.\u00a0 I love the upbeat tune that just makes my body want to dance, and whatever key it is in, just makes the cells of my body come alive.\u00a0 But if you hear the words with conventional meaning, it’s a sappy, pathetic song.\u00a0 So I just asign different meanings to the words.\u00a0 When I hear the words, I think, “Yes, only the blissfully solitary can have any idea of how wonderfully free and joyous it feels to answer to no one and to immerse yourself into everything around you, and find joy in the being with it<\/em>.”\u00a0 So I adore the song and it makes me happy, even though everyone else may not get it as a happy song.\u00a0 Just like in the rest of life, we have to read between the lines and extract the pleasure and joy out of every single thing that faces us.\u00a0 Especially if, like the song, we’re going to let it play over and over in our thoughts.<\/p>\n

I saw a friend today who has spiraled herself into a hopeless feeling place and she can’t see any way out.\u00a0\u00a0 Every area of her life has a snafu. She and her son and two dogs live out in the sticks and she knows that isolation is a contributing factor.\u00a0 She is unhappy and if you read her body language, you can see the anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n

But I don’t read someone’s body language, unless I want to communicate with them solely on a personality level.\u00a0 To me, that’s like reading someone else’s sad lyrics, when I’ve got better lyrics straight from the source.\u00a0 I see the radiant soul of her, I see the One she is despite all the words and worry.\u00a0 But that’s not who she sees.<\/p>\n

I found myself almost tongue-tied which, if you know me, seldom happens.\u00a0 I could tell that no matter what I said to her, she was not receiving it.\u00a0 She was asking for clarification, but I could not speak her language.\u00a0 We both realized we weren’t a vibrational match right now.\u00a0 She acknowledged the problem was that she spent too much time alone with her own thoughts, and her thoughts were of a downward spiral nature, and she felt helpless against them.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to say, well simply find a better feeling thought and write yourself out a script and read it over and over every time the bad thoughts came to mind<\/em>.\u00a0 The process is easy.<\/a> Doing it takes more discipline than most want to cultivate.\u00a0 She couldn’t even muster the discipline to download a file I’d sent her months ago that I knew would help her.\u00a0 A file she could listen to in her sleep and not give any conscious thought to.\u00a0 And she could not make herself download the file.<\/p>\n

But none of that matters.\u00a0 It’s not my job to fix her and not my job to make her get it or teach her how to strengthen her will<\/a> or become a more alive, more enthusiastic person<\/a>. She’s made it this far and she’s doing fine, although not to hear her tell it.\u00a0 She’s smart and educated and spiritual and can be fun and I see the Light that she is.\u00a0 Not that she CAN be, but that she IS right now.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if I’m the only one who sees it.\u00a0 When I see her like that, no matter what the appearance to the contrary, then I’m seeing the real her. I’m seeing past the appearance to what is really there.\u00a0 I’m replacing her sad lyrics with hopeful ones of my own, because I have the broader view.\u00a0 When I see HER, the real HER, then, like Ronnie Milsap sings, my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown. <\/em><\/p>\n

When you have someone, anyone, even just one person who sees<\/em> you,<\/em> all sorts of magic begins to unfold. <\/em>For everyone.\u00a0 And you can be that one who really sees the person in front of you.\u00a0 It may be that you are the only one who does. That’s what you call a lightworker in action. And I love Chrissie Hynde’s version of Bob Dylan’s any day now I Shall Be Released <\/a>(lyris below)
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They say ev’rything can be replaced,
\nYet ev’ry distance is not near.
\nSo i remember ev’ry face
\nOf ev’ry man who put me here.
\nI see my light come shining
\nFrom the west unto the east.
\nAny day now, any day now,
\nI shall be released.<\/p>\n

They say ev’ry man needs protection,
\nThey say ev’ry man must fall.
\nYet i swear i see my reflection
\nSome place so high above this wall.
\nI see my light come shining
\nFrom the west unto the east.
\nAny day now, any day now,
\nI shall be released.<\/p>\n

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
\nIs a man who swears he’s not to blame.
\nAll day long i hear him shout so loud,
\nCrying out that he was framed.
\nI see my light come shining
\nFrom the west unto the east.
\nAny day now, any day now,
\nI shall be released.<\/p>\n

ANY DAY NOW LYRICS<\/p>\n

Any day now I will hear you say ‘Goodbye, my love’
\nAnd you’ll be on your way
\nThen my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, woah
\nAny day now, I’ll be all alone, whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa<\/p>\n

Any day now, when your restless eyes meet someone new (Krshna)<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Oh, to my sad surprise
\nThen the blue <\/span><\/strong>shadows will fall all over town, woah (Krshna blue!)<\/span><\/strong>
\nAny day now (any day now)
\nLove will let me down (any day now), whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa<\/p>\n

I know I shouldn’t want to keep you
\nIf you don’t want to stay-ay
\nUntil you’re gone forever
\nI’ll keep holdin’ on for dear life
\nHolding you this way
\nBegging you to stay<\/p>\n

Any day now, when the clock strikes ‘Go?
\nYou’ll call it off
\nAnd then my tears will flow
\nThen my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, woah
\nAny day now (any day now)
\nLove will let me down (any day now), ’cause you won’t be around<\/p>\n

Then the blue shadows will fall all over town, woah
\nAny day now (any day now)
\nLove will let me down (any day now), ’cause you won’t be around<\/p>\n

Any day now, you won’t be around
\nOoo-ooo-oo
\n(Any day now)
\nNo no no no no no
\nYou won’t be around
\n(Any day now)<\/p>\n

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