COMPANIONS ACROSS THE AGES

7.14.12

Many of us carry an identity deep within ourselves as part of a cohort. It’s been carried deep, deep in the heart, at a soul level that’s not always been understood by the personality.  This deep sense of cohort has come into consciousness at times like a longing; an achingly deep longing for the group that one knows one belongs to. 

It is in the experience of waking up together that that longing will at last be answered.  It is our compass, pointing us to the work we have come to do and to one another as the body of humanity that will lead it.                                           

There’s an image that conveys this bond, one of companions across the ages. It speaks of a brotherhood of the heart carried forward from other times and other places. It's an experience of having fought side by side and back-to-back on the battlefield. We find ourselves bonded at an unseen level by a calling of honor, a standing for the greater good. 


The longing that we’ve felt for this calling, this cohort, is being fulfilled across the eons in the work of this astonishing lifetime.

STEPPING STONES

REFLECTIONS FROM WITHIN

7.6.12

How do we navigate the intensity of life today?

As the world situation intensifies there will be more and more events of greater intensity presenting themselves for our attention, events that reach out to entangle the mind and the emotions.  Anchoring ourselves in our deepest values, and strengthening the alignment between the personality and the innate wisdom of the soul will help us live from a place of personal peace. As the next few years unfold, we’ll find it increasingly important to avoid being pulled off balance by outer events. A new world is taking form within us and around us, and it’s there that we want to center our attention.

Our path through this work is organic; it arises naturally as a progression of events – one follows another. While we have no map to follow, as we become more cognizant of the rhythms and patterns of this journey, we develop a path.  The ways we work in the world and our responses to the events of our lives arise in the context of the moment.  

Most of the time, we can only see the single stepping stone ahead of us.  We can’t see the progression itself, where it’s going.  And with experience, we become comfortable pausing on the stone where we stand, waiting until the next stone comes into view.  As we see the process unfold in this way, we come to trust the ground we’re standing on and our ability move to the next step.   

Because there is no map, we shift from an intellectual approach to an intuitive one based in trust. We trust the experience of being exactly where we are, comfortable or not, knowing we have the ability to take the next step when it moves us forward. 

When we move in this manner from one stepping stone to the next, there are many possibilities where the next stone could appear.  If we had a map of the stones laid out from beginning to end, there would be no choice but to follow that single path. The mapped sequence is static -- it only leads to one place. In this step-by-step organic process of movement, if factors shift while we’re standing on one stone, the next one may appear in a surprising – but newly appropriate – location. 

Going one step at a time and letting trust lead the way, we can end up exactly where life needs us to be.