AMUSING MUSINGS:
Micro Tale #400: "VERY VERY SHORT STORIES" by Leon Enriquez
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VVSS #4: WORD MOTIFS
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We live in a noisy world. Change flings new patterns. Yet, repetition shapes our individual galaxy of ideas. Each accumulates our own perception of reality. Noise seems to overwhelm our individual preoccupations.
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We long for inner peace. Yet, we make war by our manipulative words. We think that compassion is a product for others to offer. We assume that empathy is our basic nature. We advocate that sympathy is for the weak and helpless. We think that peace comes from the outside world when our appetites are satisfied. We long for peace but we are motivated by our warring fractions. We are a living paradox of fear and frustration manifested in our empty distractions.
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We as individuals often abandon our high ethical grounds on the slightest provocation. We seem to value hearsay and toxic opinions more than the real truth. For us, truth is often a matter of contrary personal opinion. And we often prefer half-truths rather than the real thing. We seem unable to know what's true and what's fake. We as individuals prefer our own personal biases. Sometimes the difference between black and white is a vast grey area. No wonder then that nothing is as it seems.
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We, as city dwellers have lived so long in a man-made edifice that we have forgotten the ways of nature. Out of sync and unaccustomed to the vital natural balance of yin and yang, we have a mind at war with the heart. Our individual ownership of our private concerns gravitate towards a destructive tendency. We say we detest war but our deeds seem to highlight the very opposite display of affection and devotion.
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Our weary lives of noisy desperation is but a noisy clamour for more of the same. Peace is not found in noise. In truth, noise is but an empty shell. We need a better way to live so that our dreams may truly come true. At least, in our individual lifetimes. Yet, not all is lost for hope can gather faith, and love unclog our bloated and sad souls with new beginnings. Even a gentler flow of wit and zest.
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Start to withdraw your heart from the noisy clamour. Sit still in silence for a few minutes each day. Go into the silence that awaits you. Gather your heart where silence is a portal to the inner stillness that calls to you. All answers await your conscious awareness in the stillness. Hear silence speak to your heart. Heed the creative stillness that anchors your mindfulness. Breathe deeply, slowly and quietly. Breathe in peace, breathe out noise.
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Feel within your being a conscious becoming. Know peace. Live joy. Be calm. This simple daily encounter with your very own consciousness will bring you healing. No more will the noisy world ensnare and perpetuate your confusion. This inner consciousness will teach you to live and do the right thing. To change your worldview is to see a new world filled with spontaneity and possibility even as chaos veils beauty and truth.
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In your quiet times, you will come to know that true value is not about things and acquisitions. It's truly about being in-sync with your inner sacred space. God or All-That-Is awaits your homecoming in your own soul dimension. Here the kingdom of heaven awaits you even as a mother embraces each child with grace, affection and love. Be at peace.
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Word motifs are essential elements of your new-found soul consciousness. Such totems will replace the combative diversions of a weary world of shattered dreams. "Speak only love for that is what you are." Gather your gist of favourite inspirational quotes that lead you to your personal pathway. Consider: "My purpose in life is to live a life of purpose." Be a peace-maker and let your love bring hope to a world at war with itself.
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Peace, like the sunlight hurls a rainbow in the sky where the rain falls from the heavens. Be at peace that love may light your way with conscious awareness here and now. True love is the grace and light that calms a fearful child of the universe. Peace is the bestowal of grace and light even as the rain falls to cleanse the earth. So, be at peace.
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(20 October 2018)