Growing up watchng the sunset was almost a cultish undertaking. You went to your favorite place close to the edge of the world where water meets horizon, and you waited as the golden orb dropped. And at that moment, exactly, you could feel how everything stopped; everything; to watch it tip into to see.
When you've had that training, you think you know how to watch a sunset; you turn to west, where the sun is slipping under and you watch it. Right?
Not in New Mexico. In New Mexico, a quick glance to the west sends you reeling around to catch the sunset - reflected in the shimmering rose of snow tipped, earthy, blood-red mountains in the east, and casually drifting incandescent clouds that glisten with murmurs of maroon and wispy white, while the nearly full moon gleams from it's high perch above it all.
You think you know where to look for the things you expect in life, you think you know how, but life shows us again and again that things are not always what they seem, and that what we know as "truth" can shift and change as our perspective grows and deepens.
It would be ridiculous to stay stuck staring out to the western mountains expecting the same spectacular display of the sun going down, as you might witness on a beach, when it is playing up right behind you in an equally spectacular - if different - display of beauty.
Our truth grows with us. The more we expand our consciousness, the more ways we get to experience the Infinite glory and beauty of life. Then you can watch a sunset in either the west or the east.
Blessings.
- Darshan
© 2009 Darshan F Jessop
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