Nicole's Summary

This past week I've been on break from work and I think unconsciously I've been on an all-over mental break. I seem to go through the motions of the WH - but being a total 'slacker' while doing it, doing the bare minimum and aware that I'm doing the bare minimum and - somewhere OK with this. It feels like a retraction before an expansion - the end of the exhale.

Response to Jake-

Your two possibilities (Dark Side vs. Bright side) seemed very real and vivid to me. Is it possible that both are true? the one we believe and assume to be true is the one that ends up 'being' true? Maybe that 'belief' is like a pair of glasses that we place upon our face and it filters our perception of 'reality' or the 'world out there'.... so maybe in fact, both are wrong. I don't pretend to have the answer, I can only comment that when I walk through the world with my dark glasses on, my days sucks. I perceive the worst. It's tiring. People are annoying. Food tastes bad. There's a lot of traffic. And so on. When I place my "light glasses" on, my days are glorious - full of peace, fun, energy and zest. Am I simply deluding myself? Maybe I am missing the point. Maybe it would be better to wear no glasses at all - and simply see. I wonder if that is possible. I wonder if that is our goal?