I'd explain the statement like this: your eye may be instantly attracted to red hair at a time when you are not consciously focusing on your surroundings. Therefore, you will first wind up focussing on the person because of a subconscious trigger and only then will you realize what said trigger was. Also, some day I need to do some kind of sociological study on the thing many men have for redheads *grin*
And ditto on the second point; some "omens" may be "sent", but equally, others are just us deriving some everyday wisdom from our surroundings. I don't think an understanding needs to be of divine origin (except in the very broad idealistic sense I suppose *grin*), and in fact, if any time we figured something out we did so because it was "sent" to sort of "fall on our head", then we're probably not paying enough attention to what can be figured out from our surroundings, which is probably not the best thing ^^
It can be difficult to be open to an understanding, yes, I agree, simply because not all understandings are mystical in origin. To pick up a useful understanding when you are going about your everyday life requries that you be "listening", in a way. In terms of messages which may be primarily directed at others or through others, if the shoe fits, you could easily wear it too; but the ones you pick up are much more immediate because they are first-hand. I personally find it easier to be "listening" for understandings of this sort than for mystical experiences; perhaps it's familiarity, or the way my brain's wired....
I was thinking more generally than just in terms of omens when I wrote all this; at any point, something may "click" with you and give you an idea. And if this idea is something which contributes positively to your life in however small a way, it is meaningful.
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Date: 2007-02-01 10:09 pm (UTC)And ditto on the second point; some "omens" may be "sent", but equally, others are just us deriving some everyday wisdom from our surroundings. I don't think an understanding needs to be of divine origin (except in the very broad idealistic sense I suppose *grin*), and in fact, if any time we figured something out we did so because it was "sent" to sort of "fall on our head", then we're probably not paying enough attention to what can be figured out from our surroundings, which is probably not the best thing ^^
It can be difficult to be open to an understanding, yes, I agree, simply because not all understandings are mystical in origin. To pick up a useful understanding when you are going about your everyday life requries that you be "listening", in a way. In terms of messages which may be primarily directed at others or through others, if the shoe fits, you could easily wear it too; but the ones you pick up are much more immediate because they are first-hand. I personally find it easier to be "listening" for understandings of this sort than for mystical experiences; perhaps it's familiarity, or the way my brain's wired....
I was thinking more generally than just in terms of omens when I wrote all this; at any point, something may "click" with you and give you an idea. And if this idea is something which contributes positively to your life in however small a way, it is meaningful.