Insight--Living Awake

"Insight is not transferable" wrote H. Clayton Moyer. In my 21 years of teaching on the college level I have learned that insight cannot be taught. It actually must be caught. It's like a line drive that smacks into our ball glove simply because we extended our arm and opened the glove in the trajectory we perceived the ball to be going. Insight flies into our very being in serendipitous moments. It comes when we are not necessarily looking for it, or straining to make it happen. Yet, ironically, we must be open to receive it when it comes. If we are living awake, living mindfully, we have a greater chance of catching the insight. Living awake means living in a posture of readiness for whenever insight might surprise us. When insight comes, we must be willing to wrestle with the changes of perspective that it potentially demands from us and desires to bring to our lives. We must be willing to set aside our presuppositions of how things 'should be' and open our deepest selves to the possibilities of life. When insight comes we have the potential for a life transformation that increases our compassion and makes us more loving, open, and vulnerable to the hurting, broken masses around the world. Live awake. Practice mindfulness. Catch the insight. To paraphrase Ghandi, be the change that the world needs!