The Beauty of What’s Not Meant to Be
If we could see with our physical eyes what’s happening on the spiritual level, the whole world would shimmer. Every person, mountain, and blade of grass communicates with the world around it through waves of subtle vibrations, like the wind speaks to the trees by rattling their leaves. I imagine that, if we could see these vibrations, everything would sparkle like a dew drop resting upon a quivering flower petal.
Besides possibly being quite beautiful to behold, these vibrations serve an important purpose. They are our most valuable and most underappreciated means of understanding the world around us and how we relate with it. Every time that we feel the fingers of apprehension move up our spine, the warmth of familiarity fill our chest, or we see a flash of premonition, it’s because we are picking up on these invisible vibrations.
Many of us instinctively know and understand this, and are naturally inclined to listen; while others take a little time to begin hearing this inner voice and interpreting its song. Either way, most everyone accepts that not only is a ‘gut feeling’ real, but also that a wise person always listens closely to what it says. What isn’t so often understood; however, is why we get the feelings we do from these invisible vibrations.
We may be tempted to think that when a certain place gives us the shivers or a particular person makes us feel on edge that there is something wrong, off, or even somehow wicked about them; but this is a misunderstanding. While the vibrations that we pick up may be objective, how we interpret them – and thus what our instinct tells us – is subjective. Though something may feel bad, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is bad, at least not objectively.
Our gut instinct has as much to do with us as it does with whatever we’re observing. Like a stone dropped into a still pond, we create ripples that echo outwards from our center; and every person and thing that we come across is likewise sending out its own ripples. When two ripples crash into one another they create a new wave; and the new trajectory of this combined wave is what our instincts either pull us towards or push us away from with feelings of attraction, anxiety, belonging, or misplacement.
When we listen to and follow these internal messages, they keep us in harmony with our world and with our Divine purpose; yet we must remember that our world and our purpose are only a small piece of a much larger whole. Everyone and everything with whom we interact is a part of countless other stories besides our own. What may be dangerous or wrong for us may also be perfect for someone else. We must remember that even those things that our instincts push us away from have within them the same light, the same Divine beauty, as those things that our instincts pull us towards. After all, everyone and everything is both wonderful and terrible in this perfectly imperfect world. It’s all about the subtleties and the variables.
To stay on our own best path, we must trust our instincts as the wise messengers that they are. But we should also remember that even the simplest things have complexities just like we do; and although not all things are meant for us, we can still always acknowledge and honor the love and the beauty that resides within them, even if only in passing. If we can do this, if we can appreciate the flower without picking it up and taking it with us, we will surely find the greatest pleasure while also pursuing our greatest purpose in this journey that we call life. Namaste.
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