To Remember This Dance, We Woke

This beautiful writing by Ayla Nereo reminds me of the spiritual saying in Sanskrit Yatha drusti tatha Srusti. The world appears as I see it. It depends on how I see it. If my vision is clear, I see the world clearly. If my vision is clouded, I see the world clouded. If I lose my visionary capacity, the world looks dark. To see the world as it is, I need to clear my inner glasses. When I clear my inner glasses, the world appears clearly , as it is. No more projections, no more illusions. When my eyes are clear I see the world as it is. Clarity makes me free, free from the bondage which I myself have created. When I was 20 years old I fell in love with a beautiful girl who was younger than me. My love for her made me "blind" or truly speaking I blinded myself and emotionally hurt myself and her too. When I 'woke up' from my sleep of self-centeredness I realized how much grief I had created in her life as well as in my life. Life is a dance. How I dance is up to me. Taking a wrong step hurts not only me but also the person I dance with. How not to hurt myself and the others I dance with is a big challenge. I had to work on myself with awareness for some time to be free from my self-created prison. Now I am awake and aware of my self-created misery and causing misery to others connected with me. It is hard work. It is worth taking. It is a healing work. Awakening has helped me to make my life happy and joyful. Namaste. Jagdish P Dave Life is like a dance.

I feel the difference between your reflection and the poem is the difference between being seen and seeing. And I think that my observation doesn't at all invalidate what you've said. Essentially that all seeing is one and that being seen and personally seeing is the same but I can't really complete the thought at present.