Every moment of adversity calls us to remember the power buried beneath layers of fear and compromise — to break free and reclaim it.
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The saying goes, “Adversity builds character.” But let’s take it further: adversity challenges accepted limits and demands expansion, drawing on latent strengths that align with our truest selves.
Our society is drowning — in cowardice, fear, superficiality, ideology, and politics. We yield to special interests, more comfortable donning masks and fine clothing while chastising those who dare to live raw, free, and honest. Our collective character is brittle, yet the cracks are beginning to show. Finally, the status quo trembles.
A deeper knowing — our spiritual substance — is stirring. It peacefully protests our complacency, forcing impurities to boil to the surface. Our deepest truth refuses to let us stand idly by. We are in the midst of a vibrational shift, an energy that will not turn back.
This is a cosmic sink-or-swim moment: we must embody the new story — authenticity, heart-centered action, intuition, empathy — or all we hold dear may disappear. We can no longer play along with being played for fools.
Adversity, then, is an omen. It is both an opportunity and a call to enact your soul’s will. Heed its pain, but don’t be stubborn. Trust the unknown; embrace it. We know, instinctively, right from wrong, love from fear. Our feelings and emotions are guides — but only if we clear the spirals of angst that obscure their wisdom.
We are more than we suppose ourselves to be.
Solvitur ambulando
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“Awaken (Dance Pop Remix)” – from Fleshwound Restitched