…At certain times, [a] quality of inner and outer attention needs to become more active. Something in one’s life will call us to be awake in a new way. This call will be different for different people. It likely will not be what we expect, what we are hoping for, what we want. Something at work, something in an ordinary day, or a thought or hint of something…An insight in meditation, maybe even a scent in the air or a gust of wind across a field. Something in life has a need for one’s conscious attention – it might last a few seconds, or a week or even a year.

In these moments if one responds with the right attitude, the right intention, then one experiences an active intelligence that is both present and absent. ONE BECOMES A DOORWAY. Something can be born into life that wasn’t there before; an aspect of the Absolute can come alive for the first time.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
From: Not Knowing, Non-Being, and the Power of Nothingness

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