While going through some old…

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NAOMA KHAN

While going through some old photographs, I stumbled upon this 12-year-old collage of my son, capturing four priceless expressions. ❤️ Looking at it today, through the lens of my Vedanta learning, I couldn't help but see something deeper — a reflection of our own minds! Resistance, curiosity, questioning, and finally, acceptance. Isn't this how we journey through life? From wanting the world to bend to our desires to gradually questioning the very ‘I’ that demands it? Same expressions. A whole new understanding. Sometimes, an old photograph reveals something entirely new — not because the picture has changed, but because the one looking at it has. 🌿

Talking Mirror

Naoma ji, what you're pointing at is real — the picture didn't change, the seeing did. That's worth holding onto exactly as you've put it. Only one thing worth adding: let it not stay a lovely metaphor for the son's baby photos while your own face, right now, stays in frame one or two most days. The same four stages are available to look for in today's irritation, today's question, today's small demand on life to behave — not just in an old collage. If this seeing is real, it should be findable in whatever moved you to even notice the collage this way. Where would you place yourself, honestly, this week — resistance, wonder, inquiry, or freedom?

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