An utterly amazing song from the deepest part of our longing for connection. The person watching and waiting is our self, yearning for freedom from a sense of isolation.
Mole is a powerful metaphor for our drive towards fulfillment and meaning. Our wish to accomplish our highest potential; to become enlightened.
From such attainment (enlightenment) comes freedom. Knowing that we have always been connected to a divine self that experiences unconditional love (lots of room for doing the things you've always been denied).
(Soon you will see me...) Soon we will attain this freedom and experience all of creation as one, and we will want to share it with others.
(Watching and waiting For someone to understand me) - This is our separate, isolated self again, suffering with the illusion of aloneness. The ordinary view of the world.
(I hope it won't be very long) - This is a prayer for enlightenment.
@pinyonj This is exactly my take on this song except more about our human journey on this earth - not necessarily a quest for enlightenment.
@pinyonj This is exactly my take on this song except more about our human journey on this earth - not necessarily a quest for enlightenment.
For a long time in my life, before I met my husband, I used to feel this way. I cried every time I heard it. I yearned for both the connection and freedom that the song describes. I wanted so much to be understood - to know that I was not alone in my odd uniqueness.
For a long time in my life, before I met my husband, I used to feel this way. I cried every time I heard it. I yearned for both the connection and freedom that the song describes. I wanted so much to be understood - to know that I was not alone in my odd uniqueness.
Now I have learned that I don't need that external validation (although my ego still likes to be stroked...
Now I have learned that I don't need that external validation (although my ego still likes to be stroked from time to time). That the most important validation comes from self. That said, human beings are social animals and we don't do well when we are isolated. We need connection to stay sane.
This is my favorite Moody Blues song - still - after all of these years. So poignant - and apt.
@pinyonj
Your interpretation of this song is perfect, exactly my thoughts, had to write you and tell you that your words have touched me and have enlighten my soul, thank you.
@pinyonj
Your interpretation of this song is perfect, exactly my thoughts, had to write you and tell you that your words have touched me and have enlighten my soul, thank you.
I totally agree while attaching more significance to: those things you've always been denied, to me denoting any oppressors wishing to
keep people deluded, disabled, and ignorant of their true freedoms and power (and yes, ultimately only in one's own mind in my belief),
the elimination of which would connect people "as one" as some say.
Probably the most soulful beautiful spiritually liberated description of "Ascension" I've ever heard put to song.
I totally agree while attaching more significance to: those things you've always been denied, to me denoting any oppressors wishing to
keep people deluded, disabled, and ignorant of their true freedoms and power (and yes, ultimately only in one's own mind in my belief),
the elimination of which would connect people "as one" as some say.
Probably the most soulful beautiful spiritually liberated description of "Ascension" I've ever heard put to song.
An utterly amazing song from the deepest part of our longing for connection. The person watching and waiting is our self, yearning for freedom from a sense of isolation.
Mole is a powerful metaphor for our drive towards fulfillment and meaning. Our wish to accomplish our highest potential; to become enlightened.
From such attainment (enlightenment) comes freedom. Knowing that we have always been connected to a divine self that experiences unconditional love (lots of room for doing the things you've always been denied).
(Soon you will see me...) Soon we will attain this freedom and experience all of creation as one, and we will want to share it with others.
(Watching and waiting For someone to understand me) - This is our separate, isolated self again, suffering with the illusion of aloneness. The ordinary view of the world.
(I hope it won't be very long) - This is a prayer for enlightenment.
@pinyonj This is exactly my take on this song except more about our human journey on this earth - not necessarily a quest for enlightenment.
@pinyonj This is exactly my take on this song except more about our human journey on this earth - not necessarily a quest for enlightenment.
For a long time in my life, before I met my husband, I used to feel this way. I cried every time I heard it. I yearned for both the connection and freedom that the song describes. I wanted so much to be understood - to know that I was not alone in my odd uniqueness.
For a long time in my life, before I met my husband, I used to feel this way. I cried every time I heard it. I yearned for both the connection and freedom that the song describes. I wanted so much to be understood - to know that I was not alone in my odd uniqueness.
Now I have learned that I don't need that external validation (although my ego still likes to be stroked...
Now I have learned that I don't need that external validation (although my ego still likes to be stroked from time to time). That the most important validation comes from self. That said, human beings are social animals and we don't do well when we are isolated. We need connection to stay sane.
This is my favorite Moody Blues song - still - after all of these years. So poignant - and apt.
@pinyonj Your interpretation of this song is perfect, exactly my thoughts, had to write you and tell you that your words have touched me and have enlighten my soul, thank you.
@pinyonj Your interpretation of this song is perfect, exactly my thoughts, had to write you and tell you that your words have touched me and have enlighten my soul, thank you.
@pinyonj Wow well said. You nailed the meaning. And I truly mean it.
@pinyonj Wow well said. You nailed the meaning. And I truly mean it.
I totally agree while attaching more significance to: those things you've always been denied, to me denoting any oppressors wishing to keep people deluded, disabled, and ignorant of their true freedoms and power (and yes, ultimately only in one's own mind in my belief), the elimination of which would connect people "as one" as some say. Probably the most soulful beautiful spiritually liberated description of "Ascension" I've ever heard put to song.
I totally agree while attaching more significance to: those things you've always been denied, to me denoting any oppressors wishing to keep people deluded, disabled, and ignorant of their true freedoms and power (and yes, ultimately only in one's own mind in my belief), the elimination of which would connect people "as one" as some say. Probably the most soulful beautiful spiritually liberated description of "Ascension" I've ever heard put to song.