Opening the doors of perception involves quieting your monkey mind, journaling your nightly dreams, looking for the unusual in your daily walkabout – like the appearance of a praying mantis on your garden gate, a song loop in your head that won’t go away, or the intuitive inner voice needing to tell you something.
Be aware and try not falling asleep at the wheel of your life. Too many people are on automatic and let an entire day go by without engaging with others or themselves. Paying attention curates the soul life.
Once again, I have been opening up windows and doors, inviting spirit into my personal space. Spirit was already here, I am just setting the tone, letting it be known that I am listening and wouldn’t mind a conversation. My dream world has become very interesting lately.
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost ~ The Road Not Taken
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