Gratitude - Like Minded People

I've always had an appreciation and yearning to be with people that were able to see in between the lines. People that could sense the gray, trusting their instinct - knowing that there was something more than what they could SEE or the promise of, "if you do this, you'll get that."  I guess it's just that I'm finding that I have a preference to be with people who desire to seek and deepen into being more  conscious.  People who get that we're all interconnected with everything, and that we are energy with a particular heartbeat that resonates with the universe.

Sometimes, I find myself in the mixed company of people who speak with anger, resentment, disappointment and bitterness in their tone.  I feel sadness at these times, knowing that the energy emitted from this tone permeates all that are present and flows right out onto the street.  I want to turn and flee, afraid that the residue will spill onto my way of being.  But then I stop and close my eyes, trusting that my feelings of love, compassion and kindness can meet the forces of bitterness and sadness.  And it got me to thinking, what if I could do this everytime, what if I could emit this loving kindness every time, I faced this wounded, hurting energy.  And then I started thinking about how much of this do I encounter every week, every day!

Sometimes - a lot.  And it all depends on where I find myself from moment to moment, where I choose to show up.

This is one of the many reasons why I have chosen to show up in so many circles.  I love to be held in a Circle space.  As I enter my twelve year in circle space, I can count on one hand the number of times I've felt this kind of negative bitterness from an individual and/or from the collective.  I've come to trust that the women and men that come to circle, come because they sense the sacred space deep within the well of their being. They know that so much will not have to be explained, because their is a belief system built around values of what it means to be a human being at this time of our existence. That it matters what we emit to another.

It's not that we all agree on everything while in circle, sometimes we don't.  And we know that we can come with our hopes, dreams, experiences, expressions - ready to listen, ready to be influenced.  In the end we may agree to disagree, but its with a certain sense of well being that is quite noticeable.  There is no anger, no fear, no resentment, no competition, or bitterness.  Just a place for "like minded people" to come and be present with each other.  It just feels good and I believe that we need more places in our lives to nourish feeling good about ourself and each other.

Do you have this kind of place in your life? 

Comments

[Amy Lenzo]

I love this, Ronita! It is so much the energy you project around you and create in all the circles you convene. I look forward to your opening the WithGRACE circles, so that I can take part in the beauty you create.

I am also blessed to share circle space with the folks at Heartland Circle in the Thought Leader Gatherings, and VisionHolder calls, as well as the wonderful circle ceremonies for Summer Solstice and Winder Dreaming with FireHawk and Pele of Resonance, and the incredibly generative circles of conversation with the people from The World Café.