07-12-2018, 09:52 AM
Thanks for your thoughts and kind words, Quan (and thanks for the Q'uo postings you do!).
I don't know about you all but I find it easy to dissociate when people ask a great deal of my attentional resources. I wonder if this is a part of me trying to get me out of the way so the Creator can flow through. A lot of times people talk and the content of their words don't even seem to matter to them. In such a case, by centering oneself and listening "as the Creator", i.e. getting your ego's need for reciprocity of attention out of the way and allowing attention to be afforded on a higher level, one can give them what they really crave without exhausting one's ability to be there for them.
That's what I think it's really about: being there for each other in the frustrating, weird, confusing ways that we all present our needs. The attention is just one way to do that, but since it involves presence and the zero sum decision to be there or not to be there, the sacrifice that it entails is positively beautiful.
I don't know about you all but I find it easy to dissociate when people ask a great deal of my attentional resources. I wonder if this is a part of me trying to get me out of the way so the Creator can flow through. A lot of times people talk and the content of their words don't even seem to matter to them. In such a case, by centering oneself and listening "as the Creator", i.e. getting your ego's need for reciprocity of attention out of the way and allowing attention to be afforded on a higher level, one can give them what they really crave without exhausting one's ability to be there for them.
That's what I think it's really about: being there for each other in the frustrating, weird, confusing ways that we all present our needs. The attention is just one way to do that, but since it involves presence and the zero sum decision to be there or not to be there, the sacrifice that it entails is positively beautiful.
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