It seems to me we know more than we acknowledge. We believe it is impossible to know things about our future. But we do have signs a clues all along the way that can give us insight into the choices before us.
What are those clues and how might we recognize them?
It seems we should pay attention to those inner pieces of wisdom that spill from the stillness within us. These fall into the category I think of as - I should have known this wouldn't work when. People tell us who they are and they give us vital information we often ignore or pretend did not occur until it was too late.
Maya Angelou tells an amazing example of this phenomena. She says "The first time someone shows you who they are believe them." She recounts a time in her life when a man told her he was a mean SOB. However, she later got in a car with him. She was in the back seat with no way out when he pulled onto a Railroad track and stopped. As a train approached and he kept the car on the track. She and others in the car screamed and pleaded for him to move the car. He laughed and at the final moment he drove off the track. He had now proven he was indeed mean.
In many lesser ways, we all receive these messages. Too often we fail to pay attention to them. I am going to explore the idea of all those things we miss in our world. Hopefully, for all our benefit.
