The Direction of Intention

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Language is an amazing and tricky business!

If you are one year old or older, you will most likely be in the process of acquiring language – a miracle of complexity that no one really understands.

Along with language you will also acquire the habit of talking to yourself, stringing words together to describe and interpret your experiences. You will become an expert teller of stories and because they are your stories you will assume that they are true.

And, finally, along with acquiring language, becoming an expert storyteller, assuming your version of every experience is truth, you will fall into your stories, you will become them! You will tell some of them so fast and so repetitively that you will spend most of your life wrapped in a monologue about your past or your future or of how you assume other people think or might or might not see you. You will miss your present moment altogether.

How can you possibly see anything through so much analyzing, interpreting, investing, attaching, fearing, and resisting? What might you see if you remembered that language is a tricky, sticky business and that what you narrate might not be truth but just narration? What might you see if for a moment you stopped talking to yourself?

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