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Oct. 24, 2024
Desireless Action- The Only Guaranteed Way to Avoid Wasting Your Time.
“You wasted my time! You wasted my time! This is the worst day ever!”
My son screams in panic after an idyllic time eating dinner on the river bank and throwing stones in the water.
I found myself telling him, “I understand that you feel panic and upset that we aren’t going to get to do what you want but that doesn't have to take away from the good time you just had. It doesn't have to be a waste.”
I'm laughing at my hypocrite self as I'm saying this knowing full well this is probably the number one thing I yell at myself about internally about EV-ER-Y SIN-GLE DAY.
How can we guarantee we aren't wasting our precious time on this earth?
After listening to a meditation on desireless action and reading a how to poetry book, I found an answer.
How can we bridge the gap between our desired result and present desire?
Pretty damn easily actually...
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Transcript
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Not doing something with an end goal or a desire for it to become something else.
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Doing it for the sake of life, for the sake of breath, for the sake of compulsion.
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Because there is no other option.
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There's no plan B.
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There is only I am alive and my heart is beating and there's air in my lungs.
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And I must create.
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Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing.
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It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for.
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My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy.
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One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now.
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You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets.
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All you have to do is see.
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In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision.
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Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully.
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You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life.
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What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long.
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Come exactly as you are.
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It's perfect.
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Honor your instincts.
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Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view.
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Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life.
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Let's dive in.
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Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Help Me See.
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Today, I am coming to you from a stunningly gorgeous nature walk.
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Uh, it is peak fall here in the Midwest and, oh my gosh, nothing captures my attention more than the changing leaves.
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It's so interesting.
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It feels heavenly.
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I feel so compelled to be in it as much as possible because it's so fleeting, that after school yesterday, when we picked up the kids and we decided to take them to a park just to be outside together, so often my partner and I kind of tag team and like switch.
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Look at this, is that an eagle or a hawk? It is right above me.
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I wonder if I'll be able to zoom in and decipher.
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I swear every time I put my camera out of my arms reach, something happens.
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Okay.
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Picked up the kids, took them to the park, played by the river, and then it's time to go and there's this playground at this park and it was getting dark and we ran out of time and we're gonna go home and my son starts panicking that he doesn't have time to go to the playground and all of a sudden starts Yelling that we wasted his time.
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You wasted my time! You wasted my time! This is the worst day ever! And, this is a very new thing that he's been saying.
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You wasted my time.
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And I found myself, you know, telling him.
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That I understand that he feels panic and upset that he realized that we weren't going to get to do what he wants to do but that doesn't have to take away from the time he had.
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So it doesn't have to be a waste.
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And I'm like laughing at myself as I'm saying this because this is probably the number one thing.
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That I yell at myself about internally every single day.
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It's the threat of having to say, You wasted your time.
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You wasted your time.
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Even today, even today, I got here at almost 9.
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00.
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And I Walked around with almost panic, what do I do with this energy, with this time? I spent the first, two hours listening to music and taking photos, uh, which is super interesting because I usually don't take nature photos that often.
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And, um, it was like a just blissful experience.
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Then I listened to some meditations and then I started reading.
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And then of course, I opened to a passage that I read and I was like, Oh my God, I have to talk about this.
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And then.
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I read two pages more and I couldn't, I had to stop and decided I was going to talk to you about this.
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So I'm going to read what I read that inspired me to start recording.
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So this is from Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook, A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry.
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And the part says poetry is a river.
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Many voices travel in it.
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Poem after poem moves along in the exciting crest and falls of the river waves.
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None is timeless.
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Each arrives in historical context.
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Almost everything in the end passes, but the desire to make a poem and the world's willingness to receive it, indeed the world's need of it, these never pass.
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If it is all poetry, and not just one's own accomplishment, that carries one from this green and mortal world.
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that lifts the latch and gives a glimpse into a greater paradise.
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Then perhaps one has the sensibility, a gratitude apart from authorship, a fervor and desire beyond the margins of the self.
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None is timeless, but the desire to make a poem.
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And the willingness to receive it.
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These never pass.
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So this struck me.
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The desire.
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The desire to make a poem.
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And the desire to be touched by a poem.
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Right before I started reading, I was listening to a meditation on desireless action.
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And I chose that meditation, I chose that title because yesterday I wrote, um, something on Substack, uh, on a note that said, if no one could ever see it, if it could not serve anyone, if it never led to anything, if.
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My body's need for oxygen was replaced with the need to create and be with only what sustains my spirit in order to stay alive.
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What would I be doing right this minute? Just from tracing back that thread, I think it's really important to note how obvious and clear it is when you place attention on something, how that attention expands, how that experience expands.
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I was thinking about that.
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I wrote that.
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I chose a meditation based on that title because I was more aware of that than today.
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As I'm reading that passage, I come across that and link it.
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When you give yourself, the space and time to meander on what actually interests you, it opens, it just comes.
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If you like.
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This is a magically mundane version of magnetism and manifestation, that's what it feels like.
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So, what came to me after I read that was that we don't have to vilify desire.
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I know like non attachment is important, but non attachment can also feel like we have to be non human and just completely okay with whatever happens and not strive for anything specific and I believe the point, it feels like the point is.
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to distill your life down to the point where your desireless action is filled with desire in and of itself.
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So find the place where your deepest desire is the action that is available to you right now.
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Right, because whatever you're striving for, whatever goal you have actually isn't the end desire.
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It's not like the deepest level of the desire because like whatever it is, you can go layers beneath it until you get to the core of why you want that thing and what you believe is going to make you feel.
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If I want a book published, if I want, gallery representation, if that is the desire, let's just say, gallery representation, the desire is that to feel.
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validated in my vision to feel like deeply seen and understood and I can give that to myself.
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What action can I take right now that is seeing and understanding myself? It's creating art.
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It's journaling.
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It's making a picture.
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It could be self publishing a book, not waiting to be seen or recognized and validated externally, whatever, whatever it is, transmute an end goal desire into something you can give yourself right now.
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As I always say, the picture, although the most precious thing in the world, it doesn't matter.
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What matters is the alchemy of what rose up inside of you that created that exchange, that created the event, that creation of the image, the meaning that it is infused with and emits, and the iterations that follow, and the ripple effect.
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That comes from that.
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It all comes from this nucleus of super concentrated truth.
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Not doing something with an end goal or a desire for it to become something else.
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Doing it for the sake of life, for the sake of breath, for the sake of compulsion.
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Because there is no other option.
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There's no plan B.
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There is only I am alive and my heart is beating and there's air in my lungs.
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And I must create.
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It makes me think about cute aggression.
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My neighbor's grandchild was over the other day, and this baby smiled at me, and the noises that came out of my body were Horrifying.
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I, I just couldn't even deal with the smile of this child and there are no words.
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The, the innocence, the purity, the joy, the love, the, the just the, it's such a immediate reaction.
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There's no room for strategy.
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There's no room for overthinking.
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There's no room for conditional circumstances.
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It's just unconditional life that erupts from something that reacts.
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Desireless action.
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Think about what you want.
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Think about what you desire and dial it back Until that same kernel of truth is an action of desire, is desire and action at once.
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If we harness our actions into pure desire, Then we don't withhold that feeling and that craving until we achieve a thing.
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We feel it all along.
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We live our life the whole time.
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We don't hold our breath until we get to the thing.
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And holding your breath is going to make it a fuck ton of a lot harder to get to the thing.
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And when you hold your breath until you get to the thing, it usually never feels worth it.
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What's worth it is, right now, I'm looking up in the sky, and there are leaves falling, twirling, and glowing, and sparkling, until they gently land in the grass.
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What more can I ask of myself than to actually see that right now? Close your eyes and let them open on something right in front of you, right now.
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Think about how that is a gift.
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And think about how that fulfills a desire that you already have.
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Okay, that is what I have for you today.
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I hope you are having a beautiful week.
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If you'd like to connect over on Substack, you could find this episode in written form alongside of photographs that I pair with it for my archive Alrighty, I'm gonna pack up, go home, eat some lunch, and pick up the kiddos.
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That is what I have for you today.
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I hope you have a beautiful rest of your week, and I will catch you next time.
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This has been an Awkward Sage Production.
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Not doing something with an end goal or a desire for it to become something else.
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00:00:06,450 --> 00:00:13,729.999
Doing it for the sake of life, for the sake of breath, for the sake of compulsion.
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Because there is no other option.
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There's no plan B.
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There is only I am alive and my heart is beating and there's air in my lungs.
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And I must create.
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Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing.
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00:00:52,664.9 --> 00:00:59,354.9
It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for.
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00:01:00,329.9 --> 00:01:09,449.9
My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy.
10
00:01:09,719.9 --> 00:01:22,879.9
One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now.
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00:01:23,779.9 --> 00:01:31,19.899
You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets.
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All you have to do is see.
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00:01:34,549.9 --> 00:01:50,399.9
In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision.
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00:01:51,209.9 --> 00:01:54,869.9
Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully.
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00:01:55,279.9 --> 00:02:00,89.9
You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life.
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00:02:01,49.899 --> 00:02:22,604.9
What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long.
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Come exactly as you are.
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It's perfect.
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Honor your instincts.
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Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view.
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Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life.
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Let's dive in.
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Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Help Me See.
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Today, I am coming to you from a stunningly gorgeous nature walk.
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Uh, it is peak fall here in the Midwest and, oh my gosh, nothing captures my attention more than the changing leaves.
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It's so interesting.
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It feels heavenly.
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I feel so compelled to be in it as much as possible because it's so fleeting, that after school yesterday, when we picked up the kids and we decided to take them to a park just to be outside together, so often my partner and I kind of tag team and like switch.
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Look at this, is that an eagle or a hawk? It is right above me.
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I wonder if I'll be able to zoom in and decipher.
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I swear every time I put my camera out of my arms reach, something happens.
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Okay.
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Picked up the kids, took them to the park, played by the river, and then it's time to go and there's this playground at this park and it was getting dark and we ran out of time and we're gonna go home and my son starts panicking that he doesn't have time to go to the playground and all of a sudden starts Yelling that we wasted his time.
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You wasted my time! You wasted my time! This is the worst day ever! And, this is a very new thing that he's been saying.
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You wasted my time.
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And I found myself, you know, telling him.
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That I understand that he feels panic and upset that he realized that we weren't going to get to do what he wants to do but that doesn't have to take away from the time he had.
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So it doesn't have to be a waste.
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And I'm like laughing at myself as I'm saying this because this is probably the number one thing.
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That I yell at myself about internally every single day.
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It's the threat of having to say, You wasted your time.
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You wasted your time.
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Even today, even today, I got here at almost 9.
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00.
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And I Walked around with almost panic, what do I do with this energy, with this time? I spent the first, two hours listening to music and taking photos, uh, which is super interesting because I usually don't take nature photos that often.
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And, um, it was like a just blissful experience.
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Then I listened to some meditations and then I started reading.
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And then of course, I opened to a passage that I read and I was like, Oh my God, I have to talk about this.
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And then.
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I read two pages more and I couldn't, I had to stop and decided I was going to talk to you about this.
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So I'm going to read what I read that inspired me to start recording.
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So this is from Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook, A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry.
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And the part says poetry is a river.
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Many voices travel in it.
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Poem after poem moves along in the exciting crest and falls of the river waves.
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None is timeless.
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Each arrives in historical context.
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Almost everything in the end passes, but the desire to make a poem and the world's willingness to receive it, indeed the world's need of it, these never pass.
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If it is all poetry, and not just one's own accomplishment, that carries one from this green and mortal world.
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that lifts the latch and gives a glimpse into a greater paradise.
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Then perhaps one has the sensibility, a gratitude apart from authorship, a fervor and desire beyond the margins of the self.
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None is timeless, but the desire to make a poem.
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And the willingness to receive it.
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These never pass.
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So this struck me.
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The desire.
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The desire to make a poem.
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And the desire to be touched by a poem.
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Right before I started reading, I was listening to a meditation on desireless action.
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And I chose that meditation, I chose that title because yesterday I wrote, um, something on Substack, uh, on a note that said, if no one could ever see it, if it could not serve anyone, if it never led to anything, if.
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My body's need for oxygen was replaced with the need to create and be with only what sustains my spirit in order to stay alive.
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What would I be doing right this minute? Just from tracing back that thread, I think it's really important to note how obvious and clear it is when you place attention on something, how that attention expands, how that experience expands.
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I was thinking about that.
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I wrote that.
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I chose a meditation based on that title because I was more aware of that than today.
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As I'm reading that passage, I come across that and link it.
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When you give yourself, the space and time to meander on what actually interests you, it opens, it just comes.
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If you like.
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This is a magically mundane version of magnetism and manifestation, that's what it feels like.
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So, what came to me after I read that was that we don't have to vilify desire.
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I know like non attachment is important, but non attachment can also feel like we have to be non human and just completely okay with whatever happens and not strive for anything specific and I believe the point, it feels like the point is.
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to distill your life down to the point where your desireless action is filled with desire in and of itself.
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So find the place where your deepest desire is the action that is available to you right now.
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Right, because whatever you're striving for, whatever goal you have actually isn't the end desire.
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It's not like the deepest level of the desire because like whatever it is, you can go layers beneath it until you get to the core of why you want that thing and what you believe is going to make you feel.
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If I want a book published, if I want, gallery representation, if that is the desire, let's just say, gallery representation, the desire is that to feel.
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validated in my vision to feel like deeply seen and understood and I can give that to myself.
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What action can I take right now that is seeing and understanding myself? It's creating art.
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It's journaling.
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It's making a picture.
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It could be self publishing a book, not waiting to be seen or recognized and validated externally, whatever, whatever it is, transmute an end goal desire into something you can give yourself right now.
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As I always say, the picture, although the most precious thing in the world, it doesn't matter.
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What matters is the alchemy of what rose up inside of you that created that exchange, that created the event, that creation of the image, the meaning that it is infused with and emits, and the iterations that follow, and the ripple effect.
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That comes from that.
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It all comes from this nucleus of super concentrated truth.
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Not doing something with an end goal or a desire for it to become something else.
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Doing it for the sake of life, for the sake of breath, for the sake of compulsion.
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Because there is no other option.
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There's no plan B.
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There is only I am alive and my heart is beating and there's air in my lungs.
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And I must create.
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It makes me think about cute aggression.
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My neighbor's grandchild was over the other day, and this baby smiled at me, and the noises that came out of my body were Horrifying.
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I, I just couldn't even deal with the smile of this child and there are no words.
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The, the innocence, the purity, the joy, the love, the, the just the, it's such a immediate reaction.
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There's no room for strategy.
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There's no room for overthinking.
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There's no room for conditional circumstances.
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It's just unconditional life that erupts from something that reacts.
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Desireless action.
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Think about what you want.
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Think about what you desire and dial it back Until that same kernel of truth is an action of desire, is desire and action at once.
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If we harness our actions into pure desire, Then we don't withhold that feeling and that craving until we achieve a thing.
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We feel it all along.
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We live our life the whole time.
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We don't hold our breath until we get to the thing.
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And holding your breath is going to make it a fuck ton of a lot harder to get to the thing.
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And when you hold your breath until you get to the thing, it usually never feels worth it.
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What's worth it is, right now, I'm looking up in the sky, and there are leaves falling, twirling, and glowing, and sparkling, until they gently land in the grass.
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What more can I ask of myself than to actually see that right now? Close your eyes and let them open on something right in front of you, right now.
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Think about how that is a gift.
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And think about how that fulfills a desire that you already have.
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Okay, that is what I have for you today.
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I hope you are having a beautiful week.
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If you'd like to connect over on Substack, you could find this episode in written form alongside of photographs that I pair with it for my archive Alrighty, I'm gonna pack up, go home, eat some lunch, and pick up the kiddos.
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That is what I have for you today.
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I hope you have a beautiful rest of your week, and I will catch you next time.
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This has been an Awkward Sage Production.
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