HALF
FULL OR HALF EMPTY?
You look into the water and see it brimming with
activity. The thrashing of tail and spine
makes ominous signs at the surface of the water’s boiling pot. Danger, it says. You would not willingly place your hand into
that fray. But what of the still water,
with the sun making a golden basket of light down to its sandy bottom,
highlighting the open oyster with its magnificent pearl sitting in lustrous splendor
on that bed?
How long would you pause before you reached down
into those waters and plucked up that pearl from such a bucolic scene? And how surprised would you be when the
waiting shark, who was anchored just beyond the waving meadow of greenery,
sliced away your arm? Like the lamb to
slaughter, ‘they’ would say. The thing ‘you
didn’t see coming.’ Is that true? Or was the waiting pearl ‘too good to be true’?
The glass is half full. The glass if half empty. Two ways to think. Both are appropriate, depending on the
circumstance. When you are guided by
Spirit in all ways, spontaneity can be a beautiful condition—the glass half
full. When you are guided by Ego in all
ways, spontaneity contains many pitfalls—the glass half empty. As you navigate your days, which voice is
stronger in your internal dialogue?
You are working in your yard, turning over and
moving large rocks, often with your face low to the ground. At some point you stop, suddenly deciding to
follow your intuition and use a hoe to turn over the remaining rocks. Three rocks later, you uncover a nest of baby
rattle snakes, who come out snapping.
Had your face been low to the ground, you would have been bitten,
perhaps fatally, but you listened to your intuition.
Was your intuition informed by your own high mind,
by your guides, by Snake Mind, or by a commingling of all three? Is the glass half empty (danger)? Or is the glass half full (method to stay
safe)?
This is one example in an endless variety of such: the difference between the glass being half
full and half empty as your perception. Both
are appropriate and valid. But . . . what if you turned from that polarized thinking and began thinking instead: the glass is half-filled, neither half-empty nor half-full?
You are a Spirit living in a Body having a Human
experience in a Mortal, Physical World.
Therefore, your glass, your vessel, is filled with the fluid, moving,
Spirit of You that is Eternal. Some days
your glass will feel nearly full and some days nearly empty. Some days, you will wonder whether you are
more Spirit or more Mortal: glass more filled or more empty. Your perceptions and
experience will reflect this condition, and these ruminations.
Some days, you will perceive the Water of You to be
like that bucolic scene, golden and undisturbed, without the shark—some days,
quiet but disturbing, with something lurking at its edges (shark hidden just
out of sight). Some days, you will
perceive the Water of You to be like that boiling pot, where lures have been thrown in to draw destruction and change. You must not only decide what the quantity of
water is in your glass, but what the condition of water is in your glass. This is a more important self-reflection.
The greater the quantity of water in your glass, the
greater grows the ability of your glass to withstand the internal pressures of that water.
Do you see? Take all of the world’s
waters and contain them in a glass: all
of their depths and histories and storms.
How strong is that glass? When
the water is shallow in the glass, no great strength is needed. Throw in the lures and create a feeding frenzy in a tempored glass and that glass will hold.
When the water in glass grows deeper by degree, the
feeding frenzy created by the lures creates more pressure. The glass must now withstand more force. The “Tempest in the Teapot” might take on
tsunami proportions. It is no longer a
matter of glass-half-full or glass-half-empty, but of temporing the glass for the
storms of Life.
The tempored glass can take beautiful shapes and remain strong.
It contains its own worlds. It
has its own resonance. The tempored glass not only withstands the storms it is made subject to, it weaves symphonies
as the lightning strikes its courses through the waters. It becomes a brilliant microcosm inside a
macrocosm—of proportions liken to infinity mirrors in a cosmos of rare other factors.
How grows and tempors your glass and the waters in it? When your storms settle, how look your
scenes? Do not worry over whether your
glass is half full or half empty, but how well your glass withstands the
its volumes. What forms arise in you by these trials? Do you
become more narrow in order to keep out the seas?
Or do you expand, and invite inside yourself the
deeper exploration of what is yet unknown to you? The Siren’s Song sings sweetest to the vessel
who invites its voice.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice
Communication from my Tribe,
Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
