Being

Don’t hold onto thoughts, don’t get too fixed on something. If you do, you miss the next thing, which is reality - and it’schanging all the time. If you can ‘be’ and also reflect on something - good. But if you lose your Being, you lose contact with whatever else is going on in the room. What, are you ready to let the defence-lawyer talk now? I’m a little bit stirring up your ‘personality’ at the moment. I’m putting my finger in the hornet’s nest - the part that’s always trying to figure out, figure out, figure out! And, if I can get you angry enough there - even though you know you could swallow and say it doesn’t matter - then maybe you could find yourself behind all that bulshit. Don’t think about it. Psst! I should be able to talk to you like this and you remember me in the same way as when I give you a kiss on the cheek. There you go! That’s the real you, and that’s the real me. If you can remember that, you won’t mind me giving you an ‘elbow’! You understand?

The Work can help nudge us up to another level, loosening the grip of mechanical devils inside or outside. To BE, free to ponder and think through an issue, free from all fear and pressure, free to remember, free to look.
So, from the poetic we move back to the more practical. The Work allows us to establish a specific BASE, before we attempt to consider the outside world. If we don't have that base in BEING, nothing else can be done, other than react.