Life is always leading you
towards yourself.
Are you willing?
Are you listening?
Are you following along?**
The call of life
will always eventually draw us
beyond what we know
into the mystery,
into the unknown,
into the uncharted
parts of our being.
This doesn't just happen once,
it's not a single momentary awakening
and then we're done,
it's an ongoing spiraling ever deeper
through the incomprehensible,
through the unconscious,
and out again into the comprehensible,
and an integrating into the conscious.
Such is the nature of our humanity
and the mystery of being human.
We are, after all, immense,
and spiritually vast beings.
Without life working us,
leading us,
birthing us,
calling us into our most functional, innate form,
and stirring tension in all those places
we didn't know we needed to look,
it's very easy for us to lose ourselves
in the dissociation of our own infiniteness.
Luckily, life is actually very practical
and is forever calling us
towards our own centre,
always singing us
into the shape that is ours
and supporting us
to take our place in creation.
Our relationships,
our limitations,
the ecosystems we find ourselves
born into,
these initiations birth us,
these tensions shape us,
these fields forge us.
Life is always drumming us
into the revelation of ourselves,
always calling us to listen
beyond the short-term impulse
of what 'we want'
into the deeper story
of 'WHO we truly are,'
'WHAT we truly are,'
and 'WHY we are here.'
We can never quite comprehend
the fullness of where life is leading us,
the same way the initiate
can never fully comprehend
how the initiation
will fundamentally change them
and WHO they'll emerge as.
To be led by life,
to be led by the great love,
to be forged by fate,
this takes a faith.
A radical faith,
an unshakeable faith,
a faith that lives beyond choosing.
A faith that is born of the ISness,
a faith that is the knowing beyond knowing.
Life is always leading you
towards yourself...
Are you willing to be led?
~ Matthew Liam Gardner
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