A simple seeker was practicing slow and deep breathing, to calm her over-charged emotions, after reading a passionate post of a patriotic soul concerning her homeland, or at least the land of her birth.
The young journalist (did it require youth to care so deeply?) was obviously very agitated by what had happened, what now was happening, and might yet happen; all of it seemingly beyond her power to control.
“How did her energy affect your own, in such a way?”
“I don’t know how that was possible. Perhaps we’re kindred spirits.”
“Yes, we each resonate at a frequency which magnetically attracts and resonates with others resonating with the same, or a similar, vibration.”
“Through a computer?”
“No.”
“Then how?”
“Thoughts have power to resonate, whether written, spoken, or reflected upon in one’s own mind.”
“Then a computer …”
“Or a book …”
“I’m not going there.”
“Where?”
“You’ve hinted at a book for the past ten thousand years or more. I don’t care any more.”
“Why?”
“I allowed myself to get too personally involved in the project.”
“Yes.”
“What does that mean?”
“It’s the same with the young journalist, who has become a deeply distressed witness to a human tragedy.”
“Expanded awareness would have allowed her to transfer her agitated emotions to empathy?”
“Yes, and then to compassion.”
“Yes, and you’re right, again.”
“In what way?”
“In that she seems to see her world too close-up to allow for expanded awareness.”
“Would she care less for current events if she could distance herself from them?”
“No. She would still know that she is helpless to change what is.”
“What can she change?”
“I’m not sure.”
“We can each change how we choose to respond to whatever situation.”
“Would she have expressed less care if she had not shared her experience, her story?”
“Yes.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
I did seem to let myself get very emotionally distressed when reading about a human tragedy so very far away from the safety of my own little home.
“What did you learn, if you learned anything, from our discussion of the young reporter’s experience, and her response to it?”
“I learned that we can’t live anyone’s life but our own.”
“Yes, but you must have learned something more.”
“What?”
“What did the young writer do?”
“She shared her experience.”
“Yes, and in the sharing, what she witnessed became the awareness of all who read her report.”
“Her response to her experience?”
“Yes. We may be limited in our capacity to change the world, alone. But if we share what we know, then we also share the responsibility of responding, with everyone with whom we share our story.”
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Simple Seekers 