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Originally Posted by Tutor give as you would see to give...

I'm very thankful that I developed a habit of keeping my thoughts to myself (most of the time, anyway) and tried to cultivate tact, prior to some of the spiritual awakenings and openings of awareness I've experienced. If I didn't have those filters in place and I were to just come out and say all the things I see and perceive about people and their stories (by stories, I mean the stories they tell themselves about themselves, their lives, and other people), I'd be pissing people off right, left, and centre. Happily, I do appreciate that most people really do NOT want to know anything other than what they want to know, and I feel absolutely no need to share all or even most of my thoughts. yes, i agree. though it would seem that i, without solicitation, offer too very much. it is an exercise for myself in learning futility perhaps, but more or less, just practicing for it's own sake and not for my own personal agenda/s.

As I said, I'm really, really pleased that these filters and habits of circumspection were in place prior to this kind of insight ability. (There's my shades. You can look at people when you're wearing them, and they can't tell where you're looking. Good metaphor.)

metaphor mostly, yet literal as well. i've met some predatorial doozys who've come straight to me because they saw me seeing them.

Should also note that this is in effect for myself and my own stories, too, not just other peoples'. It's harder to see yourself, but it's doable, and if you're open to seeing, it's not too terribly difficult. Looking at myself and my own stories and story of my life is just as clear. I'm used to that by now, but it's still brought up a bunch of stuff I've had to deal with and sort through and put to rest.

when you pray, "ask and you shall receive", for there is the only 'insight' upon one's self unknowing of one's self. and like you say, it is in your own stories, they meshed with age old stories, these two together reveal you 'in it', as opposed to age old stories seeming to not be about you and thereby passed over. ahhhh...'rest', my god it is hard to hold on to, but realize that this 'rest' is ever with you, whether you sense it or not, holding you in it.

"The world is anew to us every morning - this is God's gift; and every man [each in every of one] should believe that he [he/she] is reborn each day." Baal Shem Tov

if then, God gifts every day, then surely God is with each one in and of every day.

this understanding is one's rest in the receiving of it as the day alone, without yesterday or tomorrow in it.

'stuff' brought up is good, sifting through it is good, just see it as not you, just stuff that in the specific day revealed itself merely because you in your restful readiness had the sight to look upon it toward the finishing touch (put to rest). physician heal thyself

"It is not necessary to "place" oneself in Godliness, but only to realize that everything is subsumed in the Divine Light." BeShT

"For oneself, one must always maintain a critical eye; for others, never." BeShT

ok enough preaching i reckon.

in addition...

well...i forgot to mention that when one's personal story is seen and related in and with the age old story, this is what is called "My Torah". therefore it is written as exclamation to God, "Forsake me, but keep My Torah!". for you see, this "My Torah" is that which binds one of man with God; God being no respector of persons (me). "Those who seek Me will find Me". Prov. 8:17

God is both concealed and revealed in the Torah, yet it is through this "My Torah" which in the Mutual understanding is the transformation of being which having within been concealed is now revealed in fulness of Human expression.