Autumn emotions

Autumn colors are really impressive in Ashland Oregon. Deep greens, golden and bronze, yellow ochre, deep red, bright yellow. Add the background of blue skies and Grizzly Peak, and this makes the spirit and the heart expand as widely as the sky itself. Such a day was yesterday. And fairly warm for this time of the year also.

After doing a couple of things downtown, I decided to have a rest and some tea at a bookstore’s coffee house. I was enjoying my Toasted Rice Green in the patio, and a girl and a guy came in. Either nineteen or very early twenties both of them. She had an attractive face. Medium height, dark brown hair to her shoulders, wearing a mini-skirted gray dress and black tights. Walked right to a table, carrying her latte. Her companion was much taller, maybe more than six feet, blonde mane, carrying nothing. Somewhat later the chap of the coffee house brought him something that looked like a latte with a lot of whipped cream on top. Impressive and enticing. I kept enjoying my toasted rice green.

Finally relaxed from the previous rush, I started by contemplating and the plants around me. Then, my attention was taken to the young couple. They were happily having their concoctions, and talking. Talking more happily than they were enjoying their concoctions. There was something like a wave of bliss flowing from and into each other. I couldn’t —and didn’t wanted to— hear what they said. In fact, it did not matter at all. Not even body language mattered. What was happening was beyond words, beyond physical gestures. Something special radiated from their eyes, and from their hearts.

It then became more than clear to me in my own heart. Heart-mind. The real communication is beyond speech and silence. It is something that is transmitted from heart to heart in a very subtle way. That is what words or gestures really carry. The feeling and the motivation. He could have been saying your latte seems really good. And she may have replied yes, and have you seen that weird guy sitting there having tea? But the message that both of them sent and received was, beyond doubts, I like you so much! I’m so happy to be here with you!

What is really important, goes beyond our words and actions. It is emotion and motivation. The emotional stream is the energy, and the motivation the quality of that energy. The higher the pitch of the emotion, and the purest the motivation, is what makes the world around us. So, we rather let our heart and spirit expand, like when watching the wonderful colors of autumn.