February 10, 2011

• You are what you see

  There is a sense in which we are all hidden – who I am, beneath what I say, is something only I shall know.  In another sense, however, we all helplessly give ourselves away with our actions.  What we do is what we thought worth doing.  The devotion of your life cannot be hidden.

  You cannot just open up - say, to someone you met that day – and say, ‘Here I am, this is the core of me.’  Your words may tread water, but they will ultimately plop down into the abyss.  Where you have gone, the people you have seen, are all a part of who you think you are.  We wear many masks through many experiences.  You cannot take one mask off in just one scene and say ‘This is me’.  One must know of all the masks, and then it must be explained to them who was underneath each and every one of them. 

  Every book is written for a particular someone to read it.  It is that someone, that specific perspective, that will unlock and understand it.  Many times when I read something and don’t get it, I think maybe I was the wrong person, rather than it being the wrong book. 

  Maybe it is the same way with God.  What did the Saints see?  What specific perspective did they take to things, and what did they find?  Experiences are locked.  It is up to your perspective to unlock them.  Otherwise, you will live in a world of untouchable mysteries, only aware of their presence, but not their content.  You will not even have the emotion of missing them, only a vague feeling of suspense, that if you had known them, you might have missed them.  But unless and until you actually know those experiences, you won’t miss them.  You can never be another person, and miss their beloved the same way.  In that way you will miss many experiences, but you won’t miss them at all.

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