INTENSE CITY by luke storms

“To wake up to …”

To wake up to
who we are
what we are here for.

To make all life
more poetical, more sane
more livin, lovin.

To experience
the true of all things

this moment…
this moment…
this moment.

- William Segal

Thoughts

Is there a vibration not ordinarily experienced?
Don’t answer. Yes won’t do. No won’t do.

How not to forget the many possibilities each moment brings? A unique relationship is here, in this present moment. It is a question of calling attention back to yourself, simply being aware of your doing what you are doing.

Attention is the magnet that draws energy to the right places, and creates harmonious order.
We have been given a mind, we have to know it.

We have been given higher mind, we have to earn it, to find it. We have been given receptivity, we have to develop it.

Sometimes when, through shock, dispersed attention is suddenly collected, one comes to an abrupt awakening, glimpses the relationship between energy and attention. Impressions are received differently, perceptions are wider and sharper. Unexpectedly, another side of oneself is revealed. The value of existence of all living things, takes on new meaning.

It is the awakening of Self that brings unselfing.

The “is-ness” of each thing contains all and everything.

Attention is an animating principle in each living organism which serves to connect and relate energies with systems of higher and lower orders…a moving entity with possibilities for diminishing or expanding intensity.

Just as there is a network of communication, a worldwide sharing of ideas and applications, a sharing on a psychic level is also taking place among us.

Nobody acts without influencing others. If one rises in his understanding, he becomes a substantial help to others. If he falls, he harms. Outside of intentional cooperation there is always constant, unconscious cause and effect-unwitting influences that can and do embrace wider circles than we realize.

The Japanese have a saying: When a cow eats grass in Osaka it fills the belly of a horse in the neighboring province of Kyushu. A man who rises in spirit in London helps his fellow men in Walla Walla.

We are called to witness the existence of the finite and the presence of the infinite. Both call, both are here. They only lack a witness to their presence. Witnessing/watching is the quintessential human task. Self-remembering takes man to the highest power.

We suffer from lack of wholeness caused not only by fragmentation and imbalance, but, primarily, by lack of contact with Self, with the realty that is in each one-never born, never dying. Body/mind/feelings-continually betraying our reality.

Self is to be interpreted not relatively but absolutely. The life of the Self, unconditioned, determines one’s everyday life. The misfortune of man is due to the fact that the life of Self does not enter into the life of self.

Most of the time, we put our trust only in our sense perceptions. I look at you. I see you. I even touch you. But I still do not see or touch the essential you. There is a reality to this inner you far beyond sense perceptions. In the same way I fail to recognize my essential self-the reality beyond mind cognition. Perhaps it can only be comprehended through opening to an awakened moment which comes to astonish and bless.

From Opening: Collected Writings of William Segal 1985-1997, © 1998 by William Segal