MWM said tonight:
"If you never recognized the greatness of what you had when you had it, or even fully know what it was that you had, then how could it be true that 'you don't know what you have till it's gone'?"
There are only two answers to this:
1) In the "true reality" (as opposed to the reality of your consciousness) you were actually experiencing that which you had, in full appreciation, and you just didn't "know" it because your conscious mind (with all of it's filters and egos and fog) was clouding it, until, when you actually lost it, you were "shocked" out of the cloud of your "ego reality" and had a realization (albeit fleeting because the "ego reality" has to come flowing back) of the greatness of the experience, person, or thing.
2) It's not true. You'll never know.
-Peter Rinaldi
Thursday, June 19, 2008
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simultaneously enlightening and depressing.
Who is MWM? And was that your response or MWM's response to the question?
But, whatever the case, we can just notice what the things are that people usually wish they had appreciated more in the moment - and start appreciating those things more now: Youth, Love, Parents
Mary Wyatt Matters is MWM
It seems to me that both instances come from the same place - a lack of being present.
Also - we shouldn't linger on what we missed because we will still be locked in past and future - still missing the moment.
And I think it doesn't matter whether it is a great love or going to the bathroom. They both inform our lives and both require us to be present. It is no matter whether it is a good or bad scenario. We can't just cling or desire the really good stuff. All things ideally should be treated with an equal amount of presence.
we are too close to it, in the middle of it, and the only way to see it is to get distance but distance means you're out of it.
so maybe its possible you both have it and don't, are experiencing it and not experiencing it until one of the options is closed off to you. then, maybe, all along, it was only THAT one that's left.
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