Be like Water my Friend

Today I wanted to share with you a quick message, about the beauty of people.

For the past few weeks and months I have been experiencing tremendous fascination with people. The passersby, the shop assistants, those I was reading about, and meeting at the festivals I was attending. My neighbours, the assistants working for the companies we deal with while working on your beds and pillows. The UPS consultants, and others

Looking into their eyes, listening to their stories, to the words they use, the body language, their sensitivity and hardships that I could see thanks to my own delicate and sensitive nature. Their difficulties, and sometimes cunning characters.

I encourage you to take the time and look on people, listen to them, see their unique reactions. To experience the tremendously rich sphere of individuality. When you see how different all of us are in the way we express our emotions and internal feelings, and at the same time how these reactions come from the same core that we all have: the boundless spirit and potential, energy that is connects us with all beings.

When I look on people and know how vastly talented and amazing we are, I try to see, how the inner genius is expressed. Or has it been discoverd by the person at all? Most of us, let life shape and mold who we become. Like stones in river, with rounded corners. Hit by other stones so many times, moved by the fast water current, that become like other stones.

yet… you are not a stone, that looses a tiny part of itself every time a hit comes. You are water that surrounds it, that flows and changes the speed of its current and direction. Water that transforms depending on the surrounding. Water that surrounds stones, and flows smoothly around them. Every hit, every difficulty, every joy that we experience is like a stone in the river, that pushes our inner genius to change the reaction to the circumstances.

As children, we play with the world, and react to different situations in a new way. We truly are like water, using our boundless internal capacity to change and find new amazing solutions to the situations we experience. Children are like water. Water “exists” is in the moment, just flows, ready to react to each new situation, without “living” in the past or future. That is also why the faces of children are often so tremendously beautiful. It is the innocence of the moment, without the weight of the nonexistent past.

When I look on people, I feel their inner spirit, that child that is there, water and air, sometimes hidden in the dark, under the countless walls a person has built to protect it. The inner spirit that is the beginning of boundless genius. It is there, and when you look on people, you may start to wonder: how is this person’s true inner genius expressed when she or he becomes who they truly are? What are their true talents about? How deep is their love? How warm is their joy?

We are all oceans of possibilities and inner genius. And if life has “forced ” a person to build the concrete walls around it, what helps is water again. What helps is bringing water closer to the surface of the walls. Drops of water, that drip drop by drop to the hardened surface. No, not a waterfall of water, but drops. You see, drops can penetrate through concrete walls, when you let them drip drop by drop every day. Small actions, taken daily, are like drops, that finally drill a tunnel to the other side. To light. We are all geniuses, and the walls we built in our lives only surround and hide that inner truth. you may not know how it looks, or how to reach it, but if you let the drops to fall into the surface, they will finally take you there.

For example like learning a language every day, or writing a few pages of a book, or drawing, or cooking if you love it. Every day, going further along one path, that gives you joy. Not thinking about the result, or that which may happen in a year time, not thinking about becoming a great artist, writer, or a poet. But becoming like water for a moment of doing something every day. These actions are like the drops of water, that take you to the undiscovered land of your true genius, the greatest beauty possible.

you may reach it, or not, but you will be transformed, and through your inner changes may find such connection with the outer world, that your life will never be the same. when your heart and soul changes, the world around you change too. You begin seeing new things, and experiencing new things.

All it takes to start experiencing it, is letting the drops of action happen every day. Drops of action full of light, like rivers shining in sunlight. Let yourself be guided by your passion. Passion is like river flowing to the ocean. The ocean is your inner genius and love.

I wish you that

with love

Martyna

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