It’s All In The Perspective

Welcome gentle souls,

I managed to practise some yoga this morning, outside in my back garden. As I lay down ready for my savasana, I looked up at the blue sky with the moving clouds. They were shape shifting and being quite dynamic with their manoeuvres, their slow dances in and out. Some clouds with their expanding 3D shapes looked like they were coming down to meet me. It was all in the perspective. This was my view of the experience. I remember in our art classes being taught to put things in perspective, with that disappearing point moving into the distance. I thought about this and couldn’t stop looking at this shifting scene above me, such a great perspective, safe from the ground looking up. I wonder how the perspective changed for the crew of Artemis II with their viewpoint from the higher realms gazing back at earth, that would be a strange, unreal and singular outlook. How different and surreal to witness life from such a place. It’s all about how you view the situation, rather than the situation itself. It can shape your personal reality and your life outcomes.  Marcus Aurelius noted ‘Our life is what our thoughts make it.’ By making an intention to change how we look at things, the things we look at, and our resulting life can begin to change.

‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’ Henry David Thoreau

Or Marcel Proust said, ‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.’

Perhaps that’s all we’re ever being invited into, to meet the same view again, but with fresh eyes and an open heart and a willingness to see anew.