06-08-2013, 01:16 PM
That's a swell idea for a thread, GentleReckoning.
About a year ago I kept getting the number 12 frequently. I had no clue what it meant. It didn't seem like it carried an emotional charge, but for some reason whenever I was thinking innocently about random subjects, the word 'twelve' was heard in my mind.
I actually started a thread because it wouldn't stop and I couldn't understand it. 12 of course, is a fairly ubiquitous number. With the help of the forum we de-constructed it and examined it, but nothing felt quite right. My mind could not get around it, yet it kept popping up, over and over and over.
Yesterday I finally figured out what it was. It was a very subtle joke from (what we can call) my guidance system.
Some of you may have heard a quote about 'the longest trip we'll take is the distance between the head and the heart'. I had heard this a few days before but it didn't hit. I have been actively getting 'out of my head' recently and attempting to get 'into my heart', essentially, a surrender. I had given up trying to use my mind to understand and then suddenly I got it. I still can't recall who said this, but when it replayed last night it clicked. I think the Bible quote references a cubit, which is 18 inches, or so a lazy internet search suggests, but the quote I heard was '12 inches from the head to the heart'.
Maybe some of you are gigantic and the distance is 18 inches. Mine is bang on 12 inches.
So it really was a 'Dorothy in Oz' type of moment. Oh. It's not the mind that is to understand. For the first time it really resonated. That was certainly it. I'd get the '12' every time I was trying to analyse something that was only understood by the wide open heart.
But I had to give up, which I did after ransacking the intellect. Then I understood. Cheeky little trick, guidance system. Well played.
About a year ago I kept getting the number 12 frequently. I had no clue what it meant. It didn't seem like it carried an emotional charge, but for some reason whenever I was thinking innocently about random subjects, the word 'twelve' was heard in my mind.
I actually started a thread because it wouldn't stop and I couldn't understand it. 12 of course, is a fairly ubiquitous number. With the help of the forum we de-constructed it and examined it, but nothing felt quite right. My mind could not get around it, yet it kept popping up, over and over and over.
Yesterday I finally figured out what it was. It was a very subtle joke from (what we can call) my guidance system.
Some of you may have heard a quote about 'the longest trip we'll take is the distance between the head and the heart'. I had heard this a few days before but it didn't hit. I have been actively getting 'out of my head' recently and attempting to get 'into my heart', essentially, a surrender. I had given up trying to use my mind to understand and then suddenly I got it. I still can't recall who said this, but when it replayed last night it clicked. I think the Bible quote references a cubit, which is 18 inches, or so a lazy internet search suggests, but the quote I heard was '12 inches from the head to the heart'.
Maybe some of you are gigantic and the distance is 18 inches. Mine is bang on 12 inches.
So it really was a 'Dorothy in Oz' type of moment. Oh. It's not the mind that is to understand. For the first time it really resonated. That was certainly it. I'd get the '12' every time I was trying to analyse something that was only understood by the wide open heart.
But I had to give up, which I did after ransacking the intellect. Then I understood. Cheeky little trick, guidance system. Well played.
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