It was awful to watchthe poor guy was all panting and wild-eyed, his little birdy heart no doubt about to explode with fear while he threw himself over and over again into the

I finally managed to escort him outside to freedom, and then spent a very bothered few minutes calming my own little-birdy heart while I revisited the scene of the accident. I imagined his confusion and frustration: I can see the sky! Its right there! If I fly hard and fast enough I know I can reach it! It made me think of the way so many of us live our lives. We can see what we want, and nearly kill ourselves trying to get it in a way thats not working. Meanwhile, if we just stopped, got quiet for a minute or two, and looked at things a little differently, wed notice the door to what we want being held open for us by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all wed have to do is fly through it. Oh, ourselves! the drama we create

Were so deeply wrapped up in our storiesI dont have the money, Im not good enough, I cant quit my job, Im lazy, I have bad hairtrudging life with our heads down, through clinging like to our that we lifeboats full of doo-doo, prevent ourselves the literally infinite sea of possibilities and opportunities surrounding us at every single moment. false beliefs from seeing Have you ever walked down a street

Or have you ever suddenly become aware of the eye color of someone youve known for years? Or have you ever looked at your mother and thought, I was inside of that woman once!? All this stuff didnt suddenly appear and then you noticed it, it was just werent there all along, you experiencing it because your focus was directed somewhere else. Heres a cool exercise: Right now, look around wherever you are and count the number of things you see that are red. Take about a minute and count them all. Now stop, look back at this page without taking your eyes off of it, and try to think of everything around you thats yellow. Theres probably a ton of yellow, but you didnt see it because you were looking for red. What you choose to focus on becomes your reality.