Ray of Light

Thanks to gratitudetwentyfourseven, I have something to think about today.

 

There’s a pure spark of light in everyone, even if you can’t see it. If you want a better relationship with someone, imagine talking to that part. They will respond to you according to how you see them.
See the light.

 

This relates to the Tat Tvam Asi mantra that I can't stop thinking about.  How am I like that which I am judging?  What is it that I see in the other person that causes me to judge them?  How am I like this beautiful person sitting right in front of me?  I can recognize in them something that I must work on in myself.  If I find myself judging someone because they constantly whine & complain and yet do nothing to change their life, what am I doing to change mine?  If I find myself judging someone because they have gone to bed with someone new again, what am I not honoring of in my own life?  If I judge someone because they don't value themselves, what am I devaluing in my own self?  When I see someone with a behavior that I consider out of control and crazy, what am I doing in my own life that is the same?  Have I eaten well or have I eaten easy food that makes me feel like shit?  Am I listening to my body's need to move?  Am I living my own desire?  How am I like that which I am judging?

I know that there is always something to see about myself in my judgements.  I am learning to embrace the duality of me.  I am learning that the bad opens the window to more good.  I can acknowledge the darkness and by shining a ray of light on it, I am able to heal it & dare I say transcend it? 

 

On the flip side of this, we see the light & beauty in someone else because we see our own beauty.  I did a meditation recently where I stared deeply into another woman's eyes for 2 mintues.  Now this doesn't seem like a long time but 120 seconds of staring with pure intent into another's eyes is intense.  I was paired off with someone that I felt a real personal connection to and at first my little monkey mind was bouncing around.  I was petrified that she would see that my eyebrows were a little wacky that day.  Would she notice that my eyes tend to cross if I stare at one place for too long?  Would she notice that I could use a good waxing?  Then I thought that she was probably thinking the same things I was.  She was probably just as insecure as I was and in that moment I felt something open up & release in me.  I came to the point that the longer I stared at her, and the more comfortable I became with really looking at her, the more I noticed her beauty.  She became almost radiant to me.

 

I am going through a tremendous change right now.  I can feel things shifting and evolving.  I can feel my life grabbing onto what it wants and I'm trying to get out of my own way.  Tat Tvam Asi is going to be a huge part of this.  It's there to help me remember my empathy and to let go of judgement.  I took a yoga class once where the instructor asked an elderly woman if he could touch her and help her to get set up for the practice.  She gleefully said yes and that she had been widowed for years and the thing she missed most was being touched.  That vibrated within me and pushed me further down my path to seeing that we are all one.  A simple gesture changed 2 people's lives that day.  I am that I am.  Tat Tvam Asi.  I SEE YOU.