“I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight
are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be
psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a
psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old
Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up
her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”
Margaret Mead
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There are many ways to come awake
Or to be “woke”
As they say today
But mostly it is a matter of looking
Listening
Observing
Interacting
It is a matter of noticing how you feel
How you respond to things
What thoughts go roaring through your head
When you experience something
See something
Hear something
Here is the thing
If, as I go through life, I keep my focus “out there”
On them,
Then I don’t have to look at myself
But if I am willing to return to me
And to that inner life
That voice, that feeling
Then I learn amazing things
Not always good things
Sometimes, in fact, ugly things
But still I learn
And insight is a good thing
But not the only thing
Then you have to respond to it
Really, I mean it!
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