Thursday, October 25, 2012

Do You Know?


The more we know, the less we feel ignorant.
The more we can do, the less dependent we are.
The more we explore, the less we feel limited.
The more we appreciate, the more we love and enjoy.

Do you know how to sew on a button or repair a seam?
Do you know make a cake or a fruit salad?
Do you know how to clean a bathroom or make a bed?
Do you know how to clean your oven or wash windows?

Have you ever started a campfire or roasted marshmallows?
Have you ever cut down a tree or used a hammer or saw?
Have you ever poured cement or planted a garden?
Have you ever hung curtains or ironed your shirts?

Do you do your own laundry, fold and hang up your clothes?
Do you balance your checkbook and know what money you have?
Do you ever spend only what you have without living on credit?
Do you do your own taxes and know how much interest you are paying?

Have you ever ridden a horse or donkey or camel?
Have you ever played basketball, baseball or golf?
Have you ever travelled to foreign countries and changed currency?
Have learned the basic please and thank you in other languages?

Do you sing in the shower or make up songs in your head?
Do you talk to yourself or write in a journal?
Do you try out new hairstyles or makeup or clothes?
Do you cook with fresh produce rather than eat packaged meals?

Have you written a poem, short story or song?
Have you learned something new or true from those you encounter?
Have you balanced your life with work and play, rest and creativity?
Have you learned how to love in the unique ways that work?

Do you treat those who help you with gratitude and respect?
Do you send thank you note to those who give you gifts?
Do answer your phone only when you are alone?
Do you apologize when you know you are wrong?

Have you kept your house and car clean, not just for guests?
Have your changed your mind, your beliefs and your plans without stress?
Have lost something without worry, because you know it will turn out all right?
Have you given up judging, comparing and evaluating and simply enjoyed?

Do you treat your elders with respect and honor their rules of etiquette?
Do you enjoy the innocence and simplicity and honesty of children? 
Do you appreciate yourself and always give your body and mind the best?
Do you take time for contributing and appreciating your life? 

There is so much in life to have and do and be.
When you choose what is best for you, you will feel supported in living your potential.
When we do not limit our life experiences with laziness, lethargy or procrastination, we are free.
When we are free, we let ourselves trust “What will be, will be.”

All Good all ways,
Betty
Those Who Know

To “know” is to “love”. For when we fully know, we have an experience of acceptance, understanding, trust and love. 

In working with this list of levels of consciousness, we can easily substitute “love” for “know”. Perhaps, for some, this will simplify and clarify where you are in your own unfoldment process.

·     Those who don’t know and don’t know they don’t know.
·     Those who don’t know and don’t care.
·     Those who don’t know and don’t want to know.
·     Those who don’t know and wish they did.
·     Those who don’t know and seek to know.
·     Those who are coming to know.
·     Those who know and are afraid of what they know.
·     Those who know and are afraid they don’t.
·     Those who know and hold back what they know.
·     Those who know and share what they know in order to know.
·     Those who know and know they know quietly.
·     Those who are what they know.

or with substitution:

·     Those who don’t love and don’t know they don’t love.
·     Those who don’t love and don’t care.
·     Those who don’t love and don’t want to love.
·     Those who don’t love and wish they did.
·     Those who don’t love and seek to love.
·     Those who are coming to Love.
·     Those who Love and are afraid of Love.
·     Those who Love and are afraid they don’t.
·     Those who Love and hold back their Love.
·     Those who Love and share Love to realize their Love.
·     Those who Love and share Love quietly.
·     Those who are Love.

Betty Lue
(Written many years ago??)