Your true path in this lifetime is an ever-running stream that flows to the sea. It is not linear, it does not follow the logic of the mind. It simply is.
Too often, we intellectualize. We study life. We study the possible paths. We may even begin our journey, only to be bogged down in details, our feet trapped just as surely as our souls in the quagmire of the moors. What seems a true and solid path turns out to be nothing more than illusion.
If we can let go of the idea that our path must be solid, we can perceive our life's journey, our Soul Quest, in a quite a different way: that it can be fluid, and that it need not always continue in one direction. We can grow, move, and flow, letting the stream carry us, knowing that when our time is done, we will reach the sea, where we will blend with the waters that have sustained Life for many long eons. From there, we can be reborn, taking once more to solid land for a time until we are ready to get our feet wet again.
Imagine, for a moment, that your path is indeed an ever-flowing stream, and that you are ready to immerse yourself in the journey. Take any tributary and eventually it will lead you to a river. That river may be a tributary of a larger river still. Eventually, you will reach a river that flows directly to the sea. Everyone should end up in the sea at the end of their journey. Everyone should, for that is the plan we make before birth, yet not all of us follow it.
And so, I invite you to envision your life-path in terms of fluid motion, as flowing and free rather than solid and set in stone. A few pointers for the journey:
- You don't have to stay in water the whole time. Change things up, enter a different drainage basin altogether by traveling cross-country over land, or getting a grander view from the air. Or perhaps you may travel in an instant, without thought or reason, just finding yourself suddenly in a new place that feels right.
- Make sure your stream or river will lead you to the sea. Some streams are dead-ends, drying up in a desert or ending in a land-locked lake. The object is to flow, to keep moving. If you find yourself trapped, don't let it discourage you, but let it lead you to other streams, to other modes of transportation.
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