Anne Morrow Lindbergh & 4 tips to value your gifts

Anne Morrow Lindbergh realizes many people are searching for new patterns and ways of living.  She has been known to think with a pencil in her hand.  As a pilot, she was inspired by the timeless sky.  Many people came to know her because she accompanied her husband on North Atlantic survey flights to launch the first transatlantic airlines.

As she moved away from the contemplative corner she once believed was her own, she grew to believe her point of view was not unique.  She encourages each person to learn more about inner gifts from the sea.  She became intimately acquainted with water from above before touching it and living beside it much of her life.  She felt it enriched her.

1) As the illusion of frailty falls away, you rediscover truth.

2) To dig for treasure shows not only imptience and greed, but lack of faith.

3) The sea teaches the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

4) The outside offers clues, but does not begin to divulge what lies beneath the surface.

Comments

[Melinda]

Liara,

What a lovely reminder that we should all try to simplify our lives. In fact, one of my favorite quotes by Henry David Thoreau is this one: "Our lives are frittered away by detail. . . simplify, simplify!"

I think we can learn much from the sea and also believe we are all drawn to it. The sea can calm, soothe, and help one to really alleviate their stress.

Thanks for the lovely reminder.

Melinda

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,
The sea offers a great mystery of the universe since the time of Atlantis. Perhaps one day we will all return to the sea where life begins and mystery unfolds. Do you think we are living in a reverse sea - without water - but still with the mystical powers the sea brings?

[Liara Covert]

Melinda, for many people, the sea represents a great mystery. People disagree about what it is much like they tend to disagree about what makes them who they are. Readers may be interested in a book by Steven Callahan entitled, Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea. This is the longest recorded such situation where someone survived to tell the tale. The experience transformed him. In some ways, it reminded me of the Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Although that story is supposedly fiction, to be stranded with a tiger on the open sea would certainly alter the perception of whomever shared that experience.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, you bring up an intriguing analogy. Some people actually believe they live within a kind of self-contained globe. You may have seen the ones with grounded characters you turn upside-down and see snowflakes or sparkles swirl inside, especially during the festive season. It is not so far-fetched to infer human beings live in an imagined sea. The dis-oriented human is often viewed as a fish out of water. Human ancestry is also related to mythology, merpeople and other creatures who live in the sea. At some point, the amphibian evolution apparently inspired our relatives or, maybe it was vice versa?

Personally, I believe in the magical energy of crystals and capabilities that are linked back to Atlantis. I also sense connections with energy resonating from the Bermuda Triangle. Curiously, water muffles sound and numbs the senses. Yet, it can also conduct vibrations and refresh your soul. Everything hinges on what you are willing to believe and accept.

[Evita]

Hi Liara,

I love water. I find myself drawn to it as naturally as perhaps a fish and so I found a real soft spot for this post within my soul.

I have never thought of the ideas Anne presents. They made me chuckle a bit when one thinks about how we live in such opposite ways to simplicity and tranquillity of nature. I love reflecting on new things and hence thank you for this opportunity.

[Liara Covert]

Evita, if you view ourself as a product of external conditioning, then you begin to realize no matter how you think, you do so within your own little box. It can be refreshing and life-transforming to open your mind to reflections from others. You need not adopt their perspectives. Yet, you have the freedom to choose to expand your own at your leisure.

[Lance]

I love the thought of how little we can get along with. Oftentimes, it seems like we are a society marked by excess. And in that excess, we lose focus for what truly is important - our relationships, our own personal journey, our inner desires. All in the name of progress, in the name of success, in the name of excess. And, in the end - how rich is our life - with all these excesses?

[Liara Covert]

Lance, human nature is often more self-critical rather than self-accepting. At the same time, many people are unaware of how they think and feel, and this makes them unaware of the implications. You can always choose to gain something from every experience.

If you have ever moved, then you have likely rediscovered things you had forgotten you had. I recently moved out of a dwelling and found myself giving away or otherwise divesting myself of many things that were not used. I am pleased other people can use them. I have also known people to resist downsizing, to resist acknowledging they have too much. People perceive based on what they choose to see into themselves.