two principles of transformation

Two plain sticks just waiting to be made fire.

One, attention directs energy.

Two, whatever we attend to, we become.

Do you not feel it when someone directs their attention your way? When someone attends to you, you transform, whether that someone be a dog, a cat, a friend, a stranger, or a psycho therapist. When that attention is turned away, it is as if a beam of energy is shut off.

The same process occurs when you yourself give attention to someone or something -- a house plant, a pet, a baby, a friend, your Higher Self, your spiritual Teacher, your Source. (Have you ever considered that we help call the god we worship into being with our attention, our prayers, our meditations?)

When you attend to the "other," you become all aspects of the other to which you attend. Whatever you attend to, you become. We sometimes call this empathy, shrug our shoulders and move on.

We do not wish to realize our own powers. Everyone wants to be Jonah and not the Great Fish. We do not wish to be the one that swallows up and incorporates -- making all other bodies our body (a definition of love). We wish to stay small, think small, live small. We choose to be swallowed up rather than to swallow.

Whatever you attend to, you become. You shape-shift all day long and into the night with your dreams. Shifting, changing, transforming.

This leaves two questions.

To what do you dare attend? To what are you capable of attending?

Capacity and daring are positively correlated. The greater the one, the greater the other.