When she spoke about Sudan she said “it’s really not about the places, it’s about the faces.” He said to me “maybe you could just take this response you are having at face value.” I read about “facing” emotions. The song says “turn and face the changes.”
If you combine all of those statements and live from them, you have someone who values relationships, is able to live with people without always looking for something lurking underneath, is able to face what is present and know that everything changes.
Is it possible faces could be the billboard we have all been looking for, the sign, the reminder of how to live our lives. Could it be that all we have to do is look in people’s eyes and we will see truth?
Have you ever heard anyone say that when we are with people they reflect back to us what we are projecting out into the universe. Shoot. That means when we see something ugly in someone else, it’s really our ugly we are looking at. It also means when we see some irritating habit, we are actually looking at some version of our own irritating self. So, if I am with you and you tend to look at the world “half empty” it will only irritate me if I have the tendency to look at the world “half empty.” This would also mean if I look at you and see pure, calm, love that I am actually seeing myself. Your eyes are the beautiful pools of clearness that reflect back to me that I am pure, calm, love.
Is it possible that I can only see you as pure, calm, love if I see myself that way. It would work that way, right? If I see in you my reflection then I’d better see myself as love. If I see myself as crazy and neurotic and irritating and not worth much, then watch the heck out….i’m gonna see that in you. Yuck!
When is the last time you actually looked at someone directly in the eyes. Was it moving? Did you see yourself? Did you see love? I don’t mean romantic love. I mean unwavering, unchangeable, unflappable love. I mean the love that is you, that is me. The love that is everyone, even our enemies, even the people we can’t stand….the people we can’t stand to love.
Vince and I have this great ten minute video called “It’s in everyone of us.” The video is ten minutes of people's faces. I believe "it" is in everyone of us. I believe this "it" is love. I believe this is true. I believe love is in everyone of us. Is us. Take a look. Look in your mirror…or the person who is sitting across from you. The spark is in there. It never leaves and there are no exceptions.
Check out the song on Itunes…It’s In Everyone One of Us by Dennis Young
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