Friday, October 1, 2010

Self Image

What if things weren't really the way we think they are?

What if it didn't rain every time you washed your car?
What if you subconsciously always intuited when it was going to rain and washed your
car, happily ignorant of that subconscious knowledge?

What if you didn't always fail at something?
What if every time you did it you gained experience and professionalism and became better at it?

What if you really weren't a horrible teacher?
Imagine how you would be acting as a person who was great loved and revered by others as a great teacher and act that way?

We spend way too much time believing that what we think is real. Thinking is only a reflection and it is an unreliable reflection because it is generally tainted with predisposition, preconceptions and a serious dose of subjectivity.

What if things really weren't that way you think they are at all? What if they were really different and you were the only one holding yourself back from experiencing it, appreciating it, loving it!

What if you were capable of suspending thought and suspending judgment for just long enough to recognize that what you are experiencing right here and now is more real that your thought and your judgment?

I think it would be worth it!

Blessings.
- Darshan






© 2010 Darshan F Jessop

1 comment:

billaal said...

Hello,
the name of your blog and some of the content attracted me to write. That was the name of a pamphlet that some friends of mine in Detroit, Grace and Jimmy Boggs wrote back in the 80's. At that time it was writen within the black community to urge transformation internally at the same time as working in the community for radical change.

And of course Tools for Change is the name of my organization! (www.toolsforchange.org) I look forward to seeing more of your thinking..
cordially,
Bill Aal