Perspective

Perspective. How you look at and understand something is all about your perspective. Your upbringing, your culture, your ancestral history, your personal experiences and your inner knowingness. Bringing all of these facets of your knowingness can lend a complex yet meaningful experience to one’s daily life. The goal is to bring not only these tools for understanding your own place upon this earth, but to understand how we all fit together in this puzzle of interconnectedness. Your heart, your mind, your body and your soul give you the unique perspective of being YOU, and the privilege of interacting with others around you who are also uniquely special and complex. These complexities make us human, and give us a lifelong journey of unraveling and making peace with ourselves and others. We may come into contact with others that we do not yet understand, and we can choose to judge or to be curious about them. Sometimes it is a mix of both until we see a little bit of ourselves in the other, and sheepishly admit that we may not be curious because this would mean a shift in our perspective.

Perspective is like seeds in a garden. When we are tiny and small and under the earth, we can only feel and guess at what is above and around us, yet we cannot see. When we let ourselves receive love, earth, sunlight, nourishment and most importantly, time, we grow a little, and perhaps see a bit more. Then we grow taller and see beyond our small patch of earth and understand even more. And then one day we grow so tall that we see beyond the trees and realize the vastness of our knowingness is actually quite limited. It is when we get to this humble place that we truly have gained perspective, and strive to offer love and compassion to all that we do not know.