YOUR SOUL NEEDS YOU

VISION

You've heard it many times before: Our world is in trouble.  It needs us.  It needs you.  

The world needs you to arouse your courage to bring all of your love into this world.  

But that is not the whole of the situation: What is less often emphasized is that your soul also needs you. And, not at all coincidently, it needs exactly the same thing from you as the world. It needs you to step up. To give what you have to give. To give what you came here to give.

Your soul needs you to surrender any defeated attitude that you have little to offer, and to bring forth everything you have within you.  Before you die. 

Our soul - or deep self if you prefer - wants to participate more in our lives.  But it is buried.  Buried alive.  Under layers of mud.  This mud is made of social conditioning and other distortions that we have accumulated throughout our lives - distortions in how we see ourselves, in our relationship to our emotions, and even in our nervous system physiology.

Our deep self needs us to break the stranglehold that the thoughts in our heads have on our attention, and to learn to listen to something deeper.  As something deeper.

Deeper layers of ourselves are crying out to be born.  Thankfully there is a perfect context for the challenge of bringing forth all of our self: this world and all its people that need our love.  This world that needs us each to step up and take our rightful place at the table.  Not pretending that we are bigger than we are, but no longer shrinking back and staying safe either.  To take our rightful place.

A small story that is so trivial that maybe it helps momentarily bring all this lofty talk down a bit:  Some years ago, when they were still alive, my grandparents were visiting.  We were leaving the house and I picked up the recycling to take out.  One of them saw what I was doing and said, not unpleasantly, but slightly mockingly, "Are you going to save the world?"  ...In that moment I didn't know what to say, but as I walked out the door an answer silently formed in my mind: "No, it's not my business to save the world.  But it is my business to love.  And if the world ends tomorrow - I am still glad for every tiny effort to love that I make today."

To paraphrase the Bhagavad Gita: We must each do our duty, and then surrender the results to forces beyond us.  We have very little actual control.  It is not our business what ultimately happens.  But it is our business to constantly strive to bring our hearts as fully into the world as we can.

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