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| When you can't see for looking |
By:
Celeste Varley |
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Last weekend I took part in a seminar in Portland Oregon. The seminar was a deeply inspiring experience. Part of the magic was meeting friends I\'ve been conversing with for over a year.
Everyone had their picture on the online forum. Yet, I twice passed the person meeting me at the Portland airport before we finally focused into recognizing one another.
Is your artist\'s vision always clear? Are you seeing from inside your heart or are you looking out at the surface of things? How can we know whether we\'re looking at, or seeing into things?
I live in a very small community where people walk along the roads. Everyone waves as they drive past. Most of the time you cannot really see who is driving by, because of the reflection on the windshield. I know this, having lived here for 27 years. Yet when I wave while driving past someone, I often feel ignored if they don\'t wave back.
How can I forget what it\'s like to be the pedestrian? Depending on which side of the glass I\'m on, my memory tends to be selective. How often do we forget to see into things instead of just looking at them?
Looking and seeing both start with sense perception, but there the similarity ends.
We do a lot of looking. We look at television, computer monitors, strangers on the street, clocks, passing scenes through car windows. But we see less and less. Books and videos, cameras and gadgets tend to take over our thinking, feeling, and seeing. Looking makes us spectators; subjects that look at objects.
While looking keeps us on the surface of things, seeing leads us into the heart of the subject.
We look at the world and label its phenomenon, make immediate choices, instant appraisals, like or dislike, accept or reject. What we look at is useful to us, this outer us that we imagine ourselves to be.
Look out! Of course we need the ability to look. The purpose of looking is to survive, to cope, to manipulate, to choose or avoid what is useful or harmful to us.
On the other hand, to see means to understand. When you really see something, you can let go of judgments and see with calm discernment. Then the darkness softens.
In seeing, you become all eyes, forget about the small self, dive into reality, become part of it, take part in it. In seeing, you no longer need to choose or label. You open yourself in partnership, and shared kinship of life.
Is this starting to sound quite intimate? It is intimate: as intimate as any relationship could be; as intimate as we dare to allow.
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About the Author:
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Hello, I\'m Celeste Varley and have been an artist at
heart all my life. It is my privilege and passion to
help seekers awaken the Creator within. If you like
this article, you may want to see more “Fresh Horses”
articles on my website. Check it out and see if
it\'s right for you. http://www.heartsongstudio.com
Celeste Varley, Heartsong Studio, Awakening the
Creator within.
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