
Just like me, you’re the constant observer, the solitary witness to the whole of your life.*
AleXander McManus
And so love becomes the most gentle and most powerful agent for the fielding and forming of reality. In love the lenses fall away. In love one forms all formings. In love one becomes generate in the aleph. In love one arrives home at last.**
Jean Houston
I’ve been observing my life for more than
sixty six years, and perhaps I’m beginning
to get the hang of it,
Especially appreciating how
I need others to help me.
As the Johari Window reminds me,
there are things about me that
others can see but I cannot,
As well as some things that neither I nor
others can see.^
Here is the continuing journey for all our lives,
One formed through love and for love –
Remaining open to the observations of others, rather than
defensive or denying; we need others to make this journey,
And they need us.
*AleXander McManus’ FutureU.
**Jean Houston’s The Possible Human;
^The four quadrants of the Johari Window are: Things only we know about ourselves, things that both we and other know about us, things that only others know, and things that neither we nor others know. These are not fixed.