Doorways are throughout our lives, how many, and where is the destination? Some think they know, others are sure. When someone has gone through a doorway physically, or metaphysically and they are out of sight, are they gone?
We spend so much of our time moving, thinking ahead, planning, we forget how many doorways we walk through unnoticed. How many people we pass, always in a bustle and a hustle. How many realms are we blind too?
If an animal is lucky and they have safety to be at rest, they certainly regard life differently. They study and literally ruminate in both of its meanings, over life. Interesting the meaning of the word and its roots. They watch, listen and experience in a completely different way. Many suppose it is more basic than us, but how do we know that really? We view everyone through our own experiences and shortcomings, very few of us can be open to consider, difference as a strength. Slower as better, wanting less, as having more.
Their communication is more subtle, their daily patterns more measured. Is basic lower, or is it more thoughtful, more intense, more truthful to life? When they are not in fear of their lives and they trust their surroundings, they certainly seem to be more at peace, needing and wanting no distraction from the moment they put themselves in.
They remind me often of monks, gurus, yogis, call them what you will. They watch life and humans with a graceful quality, that to my mind shows a perceptive depth that we are yet to appreciate or comprehend. Maybe this is why so many of us choose to have animals in close proximity. Whether we like to admit it or not, and to what extent, we all know they are special. Some of us want to explore that, others just like to keep special as, "cute, funny or cuddly", but that doesn't limit the animals real capabilities. It only highlights the limit to our own capabilities of philosophical thought. A limit to the consideration of how their difference, could in essence be, in the very least equal, or superior. They can see differently to us, they hear differently to us, why is that less than? They are more welcoming to new members of family, they are inquisitive, protective and less judgemental. Maybe they do not yearn in the way we do, maybe they know innately this is trivial to the meaning of their life. Are we not constantly told to meditate for health, to live in the moment, have animals not already conquered this?
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