It was early. I was driving on Encinal Canyon Road on my way to County Line to surf with Maxcy and Karla. Encinal is a winding, curving mountain road.
It was foggy. I had to drive slowly because I could only see a few feet in front of me. Didn’t want to risk an accident.
It occurred to me that many of us are driving around in a fog, so to speak, most of the time, and we don’t even know it. Our world looks crisp, bright, and clear. Everything’s in focus. There’s no veil of mist, fog or cloud obscuring our vision. Or so we think.
The truth is: Our vision is clouded by our judgments, our resentments, our pain and sorrow, our guilt and shame, our anger and fear, such that what we think is vision is actually a misperception of reality.
The truth is: We shouldn’t be racing fearlessly forward on our life’s highway but rather be proceeding more cautiously because misperceiving reality makes it easier for us to misperceive what our appropriate responses should be. Misperceiving reality makes it harder for us to recognize both potential dangers and potential opportunities.
What Can We Do?
We must lift the mental fog which is obscuring our vision. We do this by letting go of our judgments, prejudices and other attack thoughts. We do this by releasing our aggressive, competitive impulses that cloud our judgment and our compassion. We do this by letting go of the past as well, with all of its guilt, shaming, and blaming. We extend forgiveness to others. We accept forgiveness for ourselves.
In time, the swirling noise in our mind will subside, the fog will lift, we will feel fearless, joyous and calm, and we will see a world of beauty unlike any ever imagined.
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I was driving home from work. I was stopped at a light. Two cars on a side street were waiting to merge into my lane. Wanting to be a nice guy, I waved at the driver of the first car, giving him the go-ahead to pull in front of me.
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