Witness: (noun) -a close observer...(verb) -perceive
I'm not talking about seeing an accident or testifying in court. When I speak of becoming a witness, I am referring to a sober contemplation of an event or act or thought without judgement. I believe it is important to be able to do this not only for others, but especially for ourselves.
As we learn to become a witness for others and to our own lives, we learn to see, but not to judge...not to judge ourselves.
Our acts are no longer viewed as 'should have, could have, would have', but as did or is...no value is placed on the act. It is simply a fact. There is a quiet that comes from this simple shift. We do not invest things with hurt, anger, resentment, sadness, envy or hatred because we have stopped critiquing things. This does not mean that we are removed from life or distant emotionally. I think it allows us to invest in things more fully, without the filters that are placed over our senses by the subjectivism of individual bias.
I think that is what Bryon Katie means when she talks about "loving what is".
When we can love what is, we are not mired in the past, not shackled by judgements of ourselves by ourselves or by others. We are free to observe and plow ahead. We don't have to sugar-coat, rationalize, fantasize anything because we accept everything.
And simply do our best at whatever level that is at that moment in time.
As I witness my life in this way, I become accountable for it.
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