What lens are you looking through?

Posted by LeeAnn on September 6th, 2010 at 08:00am

I’ve noticed that folks have a favorite lens in which they view the world. For some it is the lens of the moment. Others it is the rear view mirror. And still others, view life from the filter of fear and negativity. With each perception we have three choices – will I see this experience from the negative, neutral or the positive place?

“Everything happens for me, not to me.”
~ Byron Katie

In my spiritual practice, I often come back to a space of: “I have no idea how to make meaning out of this or that situation.” My ego would love to judge and create drama and it takes serious work at times to simply choose to not know with certainty what I see.

“This is the setting out. The leaving of everything behind. Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions. The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations. No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: open.”
~ Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

I know that I struggle at times to be open and available to a new experience with a person or situation. At times it has taken serious prayer and surrender – the old “do I want to be right or happy?” However I am committed to having a new view. I am committed to move past “Ground Hogs Day.”

My personal peace is important to me. I know that I have control over my state of mind; my reaction or response; my intentions. Today I choose peace.

What do you choose?