The Synchron-O-City Beast: The Art of Pausing, Asking & Listening
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Today’s treasure comes from Robert Moss's book, Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom... The book fell open to Chapter 13, page 153, where Moss shares a beautiful, playful exploration of synchronicity.
He speaks about a quiet intelligence moving through our lives—soft, subtle, and often missed.
We glimpse it when a book opens to the perfect page… when a phrase lands just right… when something in us says, pay attention.
Some call this synchronicity.
But perhaps it is something even more intimate.
A relationship.
At Treehouse Treasures, this playful opening to life is at the heart of the practice—
opening a book at random, receiving a line, following a thread…
not to control the moment, but to meet it.
To say:
“I am listening.”
Recently, I explored this in a new way.
Instead of simply opening to receive… I asked.
I wrote down a question—clearly, sincerely.
And then I paused.
I listened.
What followed was one of those quietly extraordinary moments that feels almost too perfect to explain—
a reminder that something is, in fact, listening back.
I’m not sharing the details just yet.
Because sometimes there is a quiet beauty in letting something remain…
held…felt…still unfolding.
Later that day, in a meditation gathering, the teaching was about the Pause—
pausing to remember,pausing to return,pausing to come back into awareness.
A simple practice was offered: be mindful at doorways.
And what happens?
We forget.
Again and again.
And then… we remember.
And that remembering—that gentle return—is the practice.
Not perfection.
But presence.
Over and over again.
If you’d like to try this for yourself, it can be very simple:
Write a question in your journal (or simply say, “Surprise me… I’m listening.”)
Pause
Open a book, pull a card, or move through your day with awareness
Notice what appears, repeats, or quietly calls your attention
This isn’t about forcing answers.
It’s about entering into relationship.
Perhaps synchronicity isn’t rare or mystical at all—
but something we begin to notice…
when we soften,when we pause,and when we remember to listen.
