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As I watch myself make forays into the area of leadership, I sometimes find myself in a situation where, if I allow myself to have a preference, I’m going to make a gaffe.

If I get bored with something being said, underneath that boredom lies a preference. If I assert the preference, I may seriously wound the other person (and many times have).

If I have no preference, listening is as acceptable as not. This is what’s happening in this moment. And this moment. There’s no resistance to what’s being said.

I have to listen to my partner with no preference if I’m going to be a leader. Those who listen through the filter of their preferences still have their attention on themselves.

A pre-existing desire of any sort will bias the listening and the response to what has (or has not) been heard. A biased response is not helpful and a leader is there to help.

If we have no preferences, if we have no pre-existing desires, then what I’ve noticed is that we tend to return to the center, the heart, the ground of our being. The center is a place marked by no desires.

No worldly desires, that is. Remaining in the center is not adversely affected by the desire for God. That draws a person in; worldly desires draw a person out.

This is just an observation. I’m not claiming realized knowledge or proficiency in remaining in the center myself.

But, as far as I can see, the centerpoint is everything. Whether we view it as grounding, balancing, anchoring, or abiding in the center, therein lies the treasure buried in a field, the pearl of great price and the mustard seed that grew into a great tree.

When that center, the heart, is open, out flows what I call “transformative love” and “conscious awareness” and what Archangel Michael, combining the two, called “heart consciousness.”

Whatever helps us get there, remain there and never abandon it is what I want to know about. The deeper we can fall into that center, the closer we come to utterly disappearing as this and finally arising as That.

Source:http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/07/28/arising-as-that/