Echoes of our childhood carry on throughout our lives without the careful and rigorous work of recognition, acceptance, mirroring, integrating and elevating ourselves into the world beyond those self-centered boundaries and limitations.
Tag: self inquiry
There’s a light rain, on a bracing October morning in the Oceanside region. It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I chose to stay on the island, rather than trek back to the mainland. There’s an air of strangeness and uncertainty this month that made me feel it wiser to stay put.
Seagulls, other birds and sea lions call across the misty morning waters. Geese enter from the north. Two herons quietly soar by, not too high over the shore. Silent giants.
It is the plight of the wayshowers to battle the winds of time and to clear the path for those who follow. There are no victims here; we choose our own adventure in every breath and between every heartbeat. When we opted for the skills and senses of the uncommon and elevated, we invited the necessary process of training and refinement. We all have our strengths, and we all have latent abilities and understandings that will have a time, place, and worldly purpose. The cycles and spirals of this dance will make certain of it.
Our reality demands that we take responsibility for our own story. It is the only way to move beyond the noise and find the ease, grace, and joy that lie beneath the surface. This is awareness. This is conscious sensitivity. It’s about opening our hearts and our eyes.