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Triumph
It isn’t always some Rocky Balboa 3rd round knockout punch, your chest swelling in victorious pride as you’re hoisted on the shoulders of your loved ones, raising your fists in the air to the frenzied cheers of the uproarious crowd. Sometimes it’s more like throwing your arm over the top and weakly dragging yourself past the crest of an impossibly cruel and rugged peak with your last ounce of strength, collapsing and tumbling down the other side where you land crumpled in a battered ragdoll heap covered in dust and sweat and blood, shaking and gasping ragged throatfuls of thick hot air as your body shuts down in defense and you lie there for days while your muscles and bones slowly mend just enough for you to come about and struggle to your feet, wander blindly in the first direction your momentum takes you until you fall to the ground in fatigue to crawl the last yards of your ruthless journey, being saved only by the mercy of a stranger who finds you at their door and takes pity, drags you inside and nurses
Trust & believe
The search for calling, for purpose, is an inside out effort by its very nature. The sensation of something missing, the craving and obsession to go out into the world in search of our fate and destiny, is possibly the most misinterpreted impulse we possess. Why must we strike out on our own into the blinding light of the unknown? What is it that makes some of us feel that there is an ever-present wind blowing at our backs urging us to move out, away, in some form of pilgrimage while yet others are compelled to remain in the safety of the familiar, trading the pains of acclimation for the acceptance of atrophied ambition. And which, on balance, is the greater sacrifice?
Time Machine
As a doer, a problem-solver by nature with an inquisitive mind and a compulsion to be in near-constant action, I’ve spent much of my life reacting to my feelings as though they were problems that needed to be solved; imperfections that must be altered in some way or disposed of as quickly as possible. Any negative emotion is met with “What do I need to do? How do I get rid of this, this part of me that is wrong,” and their positive counterparts with “How do I make this even better, how do I make it last forever or increase the intensity?” Rarely have I been able to simply experience a feeling and let it flow on its own timetable and of its own accord. What I am finding as I continue to learn and grow through my spiritual journey is that a much greater challenge lies in the art of stillness. Developing non-reactivity as a conditioned response is a tremendous task. Much of the information available to us in modern society serves to reinforce this idea that every thought, every feeling or
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