The Direction of Ability & Vision

Insight & Meaning
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To hold this moment sacred,
be present and give endlessly.
A flower wants no more,
Yet it remains eternal.
Are you a thorn or a flower?
Do you reject or attract?
Do you hoard your fragrance,
or spread it across the wind?
Our time is brief,
wasted on protecting what fades,
hoarding  what is infinite,
refusing our chance to bloom again.

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Insight

The lightning bolt is a crack in our sky.
A crack from this world to the next.
In an instance you see into the other.
Insightful with clear perception.

Those moments seem rare,
fragmented truth is easily forgotten.
Wisdom fading in the light of day.
A dream slipping away.

Moments of clarity link together
as notes in a continual symphony.
Knowing that there’s meaning  
in the linking of notes.

The frequency of truth marks its own pace.
Finding that rhythm defines direction.
Insight comes not from the illusion,
but from the truth of the song.

Some believe that knowledge comes to us gradually, building and leading to the eventual insight. This is, in fact, the underlying flow of learning. Yet, there is another, perhaps more profound, form of insight. 
In the long flow of learning, there are spikes of sudden insight where all the pieces fall into place. In an instant you know what it all means. 
With the slower process we connect the learning into greater understanding because there are few gaps between the bits of knowledge. In the same way, over time the series of insight spikes can connect to yet larger realizations. 
The spikes of insight seem discontinuous because they may be separated by vast periods of time. Yet they come when needed, at just the right time. And with each we get a much clearer idea of our direction.
The clarity comes from our linking the discontinuous spikes together into a meaningful song, a message, a greater understanding. When a microsecond is an eternity, the notes of the song seem separated by vast expanses of silence. Atoms are 99.9% empty space, yet they build our solid world. 
The space and time between insights, bind the truth together in a way that we can understand. We must find the rhythm of the truth that is marking its own pace of realization in our life. 

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Meaning

There is no meaning, never was,
but what significance we place.
From shadow, our fears.
From light, our creation.

Meaning implies value.
Value implies more or less.
On the scale of all,
how do we weigh the value of self.

You cannot teach meaning.
You can only show and tell
how you feel, who you are.
Stories of the heart and soul.

Life is about the intention of our Essence.
All else is distraction.
Healing is the intention of the journey
back to unity and harmony.  

Meaning is not an object you can place on the table. It is simply the significance we place on our existence. To have meaning implies that something has value. 
The meaning in our life comes from our intention. Our intention comes from our Essence, our core of what is of value to us. When we drill down to the basic values of life, we always find the intangibles: love, self worth, peace, communion, and connection. 
You cannot show someone else these valuables. Yet you can tell others the stories of your experience of them, the meaning they have to your life. You tell how they make you feel, how they change your life. They are stories of your heart and your soul.  
Without you and me on this earth, there is no meaning. The earth does not require meaning to continue to blissfully flow along. We can find our meaning in shadows or in light. One brings suffering, the other brings liberation. 
Healing is the primary intention of our Essence. To heal is to bring ourselves back to wholeness, back to unity and back to harmony. To be in synch with the flow, moving in the direction of light, and creating our world in that light.