Comparing

I think it is a terrible human trait. It is so limiting how I have this adept skill to compare what I experience with something else.

Perhaps the ability to make comparisons is what helped the early members of my species to survive. It may have helped them recognize differences and avoid a lurking danger.

But I see it as a trait and skill that now restricts how I might experience myself, people, plants, the planet. I make a great effort to unlearn how I have become so able to make comparisons.

I am learning to stare into the face of another person without a comparing mind, and the deep richness and beauty of that person is able to emerge, be seen and be felt. Making comparisons doesn’t help me at all. What helps me is to recognize that there is only what presents right now and that is all that matters.

I am better present and most joyful when I am aware of nothing that has gone before or is yet to come. None of that is of any consequence, there is no benefit, no reason to compare.

It is better if I drink in the glow, the beauty and glow of what is before me right now. This is the unique time that I am captivated, fully captured by the glow as I have never been before. Not even when I stared into the commanding presence of a great full moon.

I drink it all in, there is nothing to compare. There is only the deep feeling of being in the presence of radiant beauty. There is nothing quite like it. There is nothing to compare.