You are what you think. Not what you think you are, just what you think. That miracles spark behind your eyes is very much more “You” than the whole of your body.
Sit.
Close your eyes.
Breathe.
Observe.
If you truly see nothing, watch for a while. Try to imagine nothing watching you. But, don’t try hard. Look to the edge of nothing, is there an end to it? Look around. This is where you are. You are the only one here. Look long enough, and you will learn to see what you are looking around with.
Amazing, to me, that each could be the way I see my own, if I see clearly.
But, …. The way I see it is just the way I see it, see?
So…What do you see?
Kertis Engle 1993 No title, No copyright.
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Now that I see it at the top…maybe it does have a title.
See-kers, and watchers. Fun coincidence.
A message well worth heeding.
Thank you, Frosted Flake.
I see. U see 2?
2 where do U see?
Point 2 yourself.
Where did U point?
Did U point at your heart or yout arm?
I did not.
I pointed at the bridge of my nose squarely between the eyes. That is where I am.
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I am pleased to have pleased.
I have always been pleased with this essay. It is incomplete, of course. But it had to be. There is little value in pointing at a truth that will not be believed because it was pointed out. Something of a conundrum. If I said what I was pointing at, it would be difficult to avoid the impression I had put the image in the readers’ mind. By pointing at where, instead of what, the reader can believe what he sees because he will have made the discovery himself.
And it is short. People are always telling me to shorten stuff. But not this. Perhaps it is the measure of success?
I try and try and try… and yet I cannot imagine nothing watching me… I mean, whenever I try to imagine nothing watching me, suddenly, I keep imagining something watching me!
OK, now you’re just freaking me out.