Noticing is to see or become conscious of something or someone. As we age it should only get better, sharper, matured and importantly must be backed by awareness directed, intended & concluded by one’s own ability. To be an authority is to have the ability to notice details that no one else sees.
The sign of one’s expertise gradually develops noticing what doesn’t happen. Noticing small changes early helps one adapt to the bigger changes in time that are to come. A fine realization to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren’t noticing. Noticing better is not just noticing what’s going on around you, but what’s going on within you. The crowd you move around with, pay attention to notice and differentiate who is happy for your happiness and sad for your sadness thus knowing who deserves more attention and feelings. Noticing faults within one’s self, ends the hobby and pleasure in frequently noticing faults in others and shaming them. Most are aware when one door closes another opens, but many often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that they do not notice the door which has opened for them.
Care about what you notice, notice what you care about, these are blessings don’t stop noticing them. Change is about noticing what’s no longer working and stepping out from the familiar imprisoning patters. Do not be like those people, who first feel things without noticing them, later noticing them with inner distress, disturbance and wondering what went wrong. Noticing, beauty, pride, wealth, happiness, success of others with jealousy is inviting mental suffering and a need to improve this kind of noticing. One must learn some pleasures are about being happy for others and some pleasures are best noticing them from a safe distance.
Letting go of people without even noticing seems so easy, even those who were once dear. In olden days relationships were much stronger with patience and tolerance but the recent trend can simply disconnect, stop thinking, feel no concern nor even expect them to come back or be the one to reach out. It is time we notice and be concerned how much we should accept being influenced by trending social behaviors, where others are influencing and choosing and not you. A blind follower of trends is only increasing unproductive discussion and engagement of one’s mind and increasing one’s indecisiveness on matters. Never let anyone or anything distract you from noticing how amazing you are.
To notice someone who doesn’t notice you, in worldly love can be a life of pain, heart break and mental suffering. This should help one notice and relate how the creator feels when humans do not notice Him being so close within and His given gift of life is not being enjoyed with one and all but messed up with wrongful desires and priorities.
Improving noticing will help one notice its own body’s loneliness and the self-inflicting harm being done by distancing the creator and His creations. Noticing the creator’s communications is a blessing, if you can’t “Your life is slipping away, but you never even notice. You are constantly entangled in false attachments and conflicts”. SGGS Ang743.
“One who comes to His Sanctuary, finds absolute peace, not even a bit of his work goes unnoticed”. SGGS Ang1122. Hope you find as I did the need to better our noticing and enjoy more things in life following the Divines path.
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