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Relationships are my Mirrors
Posted on Jun 7th, 2006
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Leendert
Leendert
By looking @ the Other (my 6th archetype :-) I see myself.
By looking in a mirror I can see myself and the other in me.
By looking @ my relationships I landscape my life by reflecting it back to the many Me's.
Relationships (positive and negative) are a VERY powerful TOOL to explore my spiritual path and material life. I do not know any stronger way to certain truth. It is also a fact that I have to learn still to use these tools in a more positive way. With other words it seems to be kind of hard to have a personal relationship with others. The reflections of the mirror can cause blindness (temporary), others call that Love,
~but it is not Love :-), only a small, tiny part of it.
So I try and try...to learn from all relationships with any living creature, humans, animals, nature, the Universe...
Relationships can be like meditations, a scholarship, an adventure it can also mean WAR! (a peaceful war of course!) I am still struggling with these paradoxes. Tell You more about it later on.
Be well,
Leendert van Velsen
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Your a beautiful soul : ) ( LOVES IT )
I feel you : )
PEACE JOY : )
Hello my amazing friend! Thanks for such thought-provoking posts.
Our outside world is indeed a reflection of who we are inside. Importantly, we're so used to knowing that from a negative POV, but it also exists in the positive. One of my favorite exercises to do is to take the top 3 people you admire (living or dead, relative, friend, talk show host, etc.) and write down the qualities they embody that you find most attractive. Because the rule of projections says that we can't see something in others that doesn't also exist in ourselves, the next step is to go through each of the qualities and claim all the ways that you embody them. Again, we're so used to doing that when it comes to negative projections, but it's time we own the positive as well.
You are absolutely wonderful, my friend. Relish in your bright side, as well as the shadow.
Dear Leendert,
After your last message to me I wodered whether you wanted me to comment further on your 4seasons blog. I had been thinking about your blogs anyway so I decided, yesterday, to add to my comments and for this came here to read more.
I could be correct or incorrect, it could be just me so please take what I say as being without any nastiness - it is only a personal point of view.
The impression I have been getting is that there is a lot of confusion in your thoughts, or at least in the way you express them but I suspect it is the former. It seems to me that you need some point of focus from where to search for answers rather than scatter your search and, thereby, scatter your thoughts as well. In other words, I suggest that you would be best served by an orderly, uncomplicated, approach to your search for the Truth or Reality or whatever we may call it.
We often talk about the 'key' to success. Well, what do you think the 'key' is in your case. What is it that you must first open - what is that thing that makes everything else meaningful?
I do not want to lead you here, so let me know what this thing is. It is quite possible that as you read this the answer came to you without thinking. If it did that is good - but I have said enough.
Reply here but send me a message that you have replied.
I wish you well,
Ian
Dear Leon,
You have been speaking of several selves within yourself. You have been speaking so, since sufficient time back. Whenever I have read you, I have understood that you are influenced by some spiritual truth, some intuitive impression of a higher truth.
And it is a truth. There are several selves in each man. In my writings in my Blog and in my Pod I have clearly mentioned it. This is one of the bases on which Sri Aurobindo and The Mother [Mira Alfassa] have been trying to bring a transformation in the world. All the persons (writers and thinkers) who have understood Sri Aurobindo and The Mother are in the knowledge of it. You can find about in The Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem, a world-famous book, one of the best books about Sri Aurobindo, which I have good luck to translate in Bengali. There are several beings in a human individual, not just the surface mind and the body.
So I understand you very clearly, and there is no disorder in your thought. Some people may not understand you. That is because the matter is like this, out of the ordinary experience. Out of the common reasoning.
And your style of writing is like that. For some, it may be difficult to follow.
Have you heard of Khalil Gibran? Many people cannot understand him. To many people, Sri Aurobindo is very tough to go through.
To some, The Mother is also full of puzzle. So what? If I do not understand any higher truth, should I say that the person is confusing? I should rather admit that I do not understand. That is a better way of speaking.
Truth is not bound by mind and reason alone. Reason and lack of complicacy cannot be the criterion of Truth. Truth is very often complicated. If you want to make it over-simple, it will lose itself. It will no more remain Truth. Ordinary human mind, untouched by the higher consciousness, cannot apprehend Truth.
So, be confirmed, you are on the Way to the Truth. Those who have not understood you may remain silent.
Barin
08-06-2006
I too see no confusion…I see in my mind's eye fine cut crystal, each facet reflecting it's own light in many directions but when looked at as a whole, a beautiful masterpiece. Each blog is an exercise in reflecting that light, to us and back to Leo. Sometimes knowledge and insight reflected back creates more questions, but isn't that the purpose of Leo's blog? To say that he is confused is truly missing the point. It's the journey, with or without a map, from which we learn the most.