Sail Away from the Safe Harbor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain

Each Moment is Special

As I write this I’m sitting outside in my back yard. My trusty MacBook is sheltered from the rain by an umbrella precariously placed over my lap. If the rain clouds allowed, I’d be able to see a nearly full moon rising across my rooftop. As it is, I can only see its light reflected off cloud cover and hear the drops fall off late autumn leaves around me…

I recorded this from my journal on October 31, 2008. I felt that it held enough meaning to share with you here.

Flying from Lewiston, ID home to Boise, ID

I just lifted off from Lewiston en route Boise. It’s about 55-60 degrees and was raining hard as I boarded the flight. Prior to take off the rain lessened and a full, brilliant, double rainbow appeared off the port (left) side of the airplane

As we sped down the runway for takeoff I saw a miracle appear in my little seat-side window; a miracle at least to me. As we gained altitude the rainbow became a full circle! I could still see the full upper half—that we are all used to seeing—doubled, both in constant, clear, clarity. As we gained altitude though I could also see the bottom half of both rainbows… a full circle. And frankly, I was moved!

As we continued into the misty, rain-filled air I watched both rain circles fade away. The amazing feeling for me was that I knew that they were still there; it was only my perspective that had changed.

Now, if I reside primarily in the control room of my Mind I can recall with some accuracy the scientific explanation describing the formation of rainbows. I know about light bending, reflecting, and refracting off of water molecules in the damp air. I know these things.

However, another function of the Mind is Imagination. This side of our perception resides closer to our child-like nature, our Basic Self, as well as closer to the room of our Heart; our emotions.

From this place I can see through eyes of wonder and awe. I can feel the beauty of nature from something as simple, yet profound, a a double rain-circle. From here I can see the interplay of light and shadow on the cloud tops outside my airplane window to noticing the late Autumn’s first touch of snow on the mountain peaks beneath me.

For yet another, more inner, view I can move into the room of Spirit. From here, regardless of belief system, I can see how minuscule my place in life is as I watch the terrain change as we fly our way southward. I see lights in little towns as well as lights from very remote homes hidden in the hills.

Our human condition reminds us that we are more often than not just as deeply separated from those that live just down the street from us as we are from that lone person or family living away up in the mountains. Physical proximity never guarantees mental, emotional, or spiritual closeness to our neighbors.

In fact, the opposite is more often true… In rural populations where physical distance separates neighbors we often see closer community, respect, and support than we do in our urban subdivisions.

I am not hinting that one situation is better than another and I’m not romanticizing country living over the city experience. I am saying though that our place in this life begins with us.

“God gave us faces, we make
our own expressions.” –Anonymous

It begins with our own attitude about ourselves and it begins with the respect we either choose to allow or disallow each step we make in our own journey.

Side note: From the vantage point of my window seat I can also see the intelligence, ingenuity, and remarkable achievement we can make as humans. Rather than a 6+ hour drive home this airplane is going to get me there in about 45 minutes!

We are all at once small and large. Enjoy your own journey. Embrace it with the importance it deserves; grasp it with all your humor, strength, talent, and grace.

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All the best,

Zane

Oh… as an interesting note. After writing this I picked up a Boise Weekly and read Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology article. It read:

Capricorn: This is the week of the Upside-Down rainbow. It’s a time when signs of good fortune are everywhere, but always with some odd twist or anomalous feature…

His article goes on  to remind me to pay attention to each moment. Did I get goose bumps when I saw the upside down rainbow reference. Yep. I did. And more so, I cried.

I felt reminded of all the things I’m working on and that they, and we, are truly all connected.

Thank you for reading this. I believe deeply in the idea that our journey is all-important, That we most often get lost in our day-to-day tasks.

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The Usefulness of What Is Not

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is,
we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.
- Lao Tzu

The Delusion of Humanity

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and
you are out there.
- Yasutani Roshi, Zen master

Peace is not Conditional

The idea that peace is conditional, depending on certain needs being met - being loved and appreciated, financially secure, well rested, having good work - is eventually replaced by the realization that the moment you’re experiencing right now is the only one, and it can’t be changed.
- Joan Borysenko

An Open Mind

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
- Robert M. Sapolsky

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