With each day, each interaction, each situation we encounter, good or bad, we are accumulating knowledge, experience, and possibly even a deeper understanding of self and others if we choose to reflect on these events.
With so many calls on our time and much taking our attention reflecting on events may be easily sidelined. We can be sure, though, that the memory will be stored, perhaps not perfectly but even so.
When we encounter a similar situation, we draw on that knowledge and experience – like tapping into our own personal library or Google. A times it’s useful. At others, less so.
Concrete knowledge and past experience can constrain. Sure, we respond but is it the best response. One that will elevate…the other, the situation, the outcome.
A practice of reflection, of meditation, pursued with discipline, opens us to a far greater resource, a ‘universal library’ of wisdom from a higher source. In the stillness and quiet of our contemplation we begin, slowly, to establish a connection both to our essential self and to this higher source.
And as the channel is opened and the flow established through our practice, the glimmers of intuition strengthen as does our awareness of the signs we receive in our everyday that we are making different and better choices.
Of course, our concrete experience still matters. Its integration with our new levels of insight, in right measure, will add significant power to our contribution to building a better world.
Surely, then, our service to ourselves, our human family and our world is to tap into and work with this higher level knowing.