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December 17, 2009
splendour amid squalor
As I stepped outside at 8am this morning, I noticed something quite different in the air and light - a lovely quality of cold but dry and crisp stillness not often associated with the usual grey and damp of the Big Smoke.
Amazingly, the sky was partly blue, and low sunbeams were making a beautiful play of salmon-pinkish light on tops of buildings and church tower. I looked up and felt elated. What a gratifying vision!
And just as I was starting to feel rather smugly pleased with my awareness of the beauty and glory of what I was watching, and was even inwardly congratulating myself on noticing such blessings in the 'everyday', I stepped, dear Reader, into a dog excrement.
Shit happens, they say. How right they are!
Needless to say I was annoyed. But also amused, in a wry sort of way.
What a priceless if unsubtle lesson in ego-deflation, just as I was beginning to fancy myself as something/someone special. On higher ground, more 'spiritually' evolved perhaps, than others..
We are human beings on a spiritual journey. Or maybe it's the other way round - spiritual beings on a human journey.
Whatever.. Who cares which one it is as long as we watch where we're going..
Posted by Marzena at December 17, 2009 08:41 PM