Many years ago I learned every situation in our life, and how we handle it, is a projection of our own thoughts, feelings, experiences and expectations. Our minds, and our memories, are so powerful that a as we contemplate and conjure a concern or worry it will show up proving us right. Learned this the hard way - a cosmic 2 by 4 proved it to me right then and there. Realizing that if I could create something so feared in my life, so quickly, I had better learn even quicker, to clean up my thinking and speaking, and ultimately my creating.
Know that I often speak in analogies, stories and verbal pictures that I see in my mind's eye and hear whispered in my ear. I determined long ago that my art is in my voice and words are my paintbrush. The light, the dark, the bright and the hued words of communication. So…
Do you remember the old movies depicting a man dragging himself across the desert, delirious and needing water? All of a sudden a vision of palm trees appeared, filled with dates and beneath the waving fronds was a pond of water. Sometimes the mirage was real; thirst quenched, man saved. At other times the mirage would disappear just as the man approached the illusion close enough to quench his thirst. Poof! Gone. That is exactly what happens when we put an intention out into the world in an effort to create what we want, then deteriorate our manifestation with thoughts of dis-trust, questioning our ability to create our intended result.
My curiosity and desire to better my language of clear communication and wondrous creation sent me off to research. Interestingly I learned in Hindi the root of the word mirage means to look at or to admire. It doesn't distinguish if it is real or not. It is left to the individual to decide to trust, know and accept the real of their own creation. The question to ask, it as a mirage I choose to live, in admiration of my own creation? Or the illusion, a dream unfulfilled?
So in this earthly world, a life of our own creation, it is our choosing; create the illusion or mirage of life. Is it the fruitless effort of Poof! Gone. Or is it to create the Mirage, admiring, enjoying and living as the man quenched and vibrantly alive.
Live the available life through your own Mirage.
