Oh, this soul’s
journey
Ever-surprising!
Teaching me to
delight in the unexpected
Watching my Self with
compassionate eyes
Wanting the road
To ALWAYS!
Be straight
Be clear of
obstacles
Be safe
Be illuminated
Be wide OPEN
Learning to enjoy
To be
unconditionally present
To what comes
The road
Winding
Twisting
Bumping
Jarring
Turning
Dark
Narrow
No side rails
Pot holes
Flooded
JOURNEYing ON
This TRAVELin’
Heart
Choice by conscious
choice
Comes to see
The TRUTH
That the road
Is ALWAYS!
Straight
Clear
Safe
Illuminated
Wide OPEN
It is ME
My human Self
That gets sideways
Twisted
Narrow
Closed
Forgetting
Wanting to arrive
At some FINAL
destination
Settle in
Stop the ride
Make what is
temporary “permanent”
Instead of flowing
with Life
Living the
adventure
Getting “there”
And realizing
Every ending is a
beginning
And
Every beginning is
an ending
Our TRAVELin’ Heart
Goes ON and ON and
ON
Down the road
Into the More
Awaiting
Freeing the JOY
In the journey.
Follow your bliss! Joseph Campbell
urged us with his personal philosophy.
There is such profound wisdom in follow
your bliss! as it is the invitation to free your joy in the living of your
life for no reason at all and a million reasons simultaneously. Grounded in the truth that every moment,
every breath is a gift and knowing this
beyond concept or theory, letting this vibration spring from our bones, we live
the passion, our life powered by soul – this
TRAVELin heart. In this way of
being, our heart travels on and on and on instead of trying to contain our
ever-expanding Self, our life force boxed in by some idea about a final
destination. Everything is
temporary! We arrive there and life keeps flowing, moving us
forward and we realize: Every ending is a beginning and Every
beginning is an ending. Silly
us! There
is no final destination only MORE awaiting us. Allowing our travelin’ heart to do what it
does naturally, flowing with life into the next there, we free the sheer joy in the journey step by step.
When
asked why I don’t drink, why I don’t run marathons or participate in triathlons
anymore, why I sold my business, etc. , I have heard my Self say over and over
again: It was fun until it wasn’t! laughing
and delighting in this simple truth. As
I look back on all my life choices, the things I plugged my energy, my precious
life force into and how they are ever-changing, I see with absolute clarity
that the times I hung on out of fear of the unknown – not honoring my travelin’
heart that only wants good for me, that only wants to free my joy – I deadened
my Self and dulled my life in the resistance.
I
am grateful for the whole of my journey and all that has led me here into this
moment. There was immeasurable joy
running marathons, operating my business, living in Brownsburg and so on, but my
travelin’ heart, wiser than my human Self, knows how to follow my bliss; and wouldn’t let me betray my Self. Now, there was a transition period in giving
my Self permission to free the joy which was painstaking where I caged my Self,
a prisoner of my own successes. I was
good at operating my business. I was
awesome at running marathons even qualifying for Boston. I knew how to live that life in
Brownsburg. This is a liberation walk! The veils lift through the graces of the
universe that lie in our very heart and we cannot deny the truth which takes on
the next road which converges into the next road until our last breath.
Following
the joy, trusting the travelin’ heart to guide us into what’s next? is essential to coming alive, never placing our Self
into a final destination coffin while breath still pulses through us: mind,
body, heart and soul. It was fun until it wasn’t! is wisdom
that urges me to move on and make new choices, letting go and reaching for
more. If I hang on, I won’t be free for
the more.
The
invitation this day and this lifetime is to TRUST this TRAVELin’ heart that knows it is here to enjoy the journey and
will guide you into your truest life stoking the fire in your belly with a sense
of aliveness unparalleled. It only
whispers truth and higher wisdom as it cannot be conditioned by cultural spells
toxic with shame and guilt that strip the joy in living. It has not bought in to the B.S. that life is a bitch and then you die! or the
sacrificing martyr complex where we betray our Self over and over and over
believing falsely that this makes us good
– that there is nobility in this self-deprecating, self-loathing, unworthy,
doormat energy. You are here to come
alive, to be excited in expressing life uniquely as YOU. Never settle for anything less than joyful LIVING. A joyful life is a soulful life!
JOURNEY
ON road after road after road with this knowing:
Every ending is a
beginning
And
Every beginning is
an ending
YOUR TRAVELin’
Heart
Goes ON and ON and
ON
Down the road
Into the More
Awaiting
Freeing the JOY
In the journey.
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