Maturity

Lets keep ourselves in perspective.

We have been around the block with ouselves many times. We know where we get snagged up, we know where certain relationships or circumstances will lead us. We are familiar with how we react to various circumstances.

Just for today, avoid going down a street that we know is filled with potholes and take a street that runs some other way.

Why should we deliberately set ourselves up for disappointment when we can just as easily avoid it?

Why should we do what we know will not yield high returns?

If we know and understand ourselves, then it is our responsibility to put that knowledge to good use, to allow it to steer us through our lives in positive and pleasant ways.

Our lives work better when we are able to witness ouselves in action, knowing that we can enter in by choice rather than compulsion, feeling free to act as we choose, to tailor our lives to suit us.

To act with maturity.

Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. ~ Kajetan von Schlaggenberg

Time and Space

Look beyond time and space into the infinite nature of the universe, into soul.

What we see around us is not all there is to this world. See more.

Trust your eyes and trust your heart.

What we see with our minds and our hearts are just as real for us as what we see with our eyes.

Reality is multilayered.

When we are still and quiet it unfolds itself to us. Its wisdom and meaning seep effortlessly into our pores. We come to understand truth and soul because we sense its presence within us.

We are a part of this divine mystery of life.

We are indivisible with the whole, a cog in an ever-turning wheel of time, beyond which lies eternity, more life, more me, more it.

See beyond time and space.

The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in this world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evolution of Spirit

We are all a part of a larger plan, the evolution of the human mind.

If evolution is natural to the species of plants and animals, then we must be evolving as well.

The true scholar seeks to build on what has been developed. He or she continues to test and prove, to grow theories and then to pass them on in good order to the next generation of researchers and learners.

Work to be a good scholar of life today, competent researchers of the human soul.

Work towards doing our part to expand in the accumulated knowledge that we all have access to.

Experiment and add to a body of information, then pass it lovingly on to the next generation.

We are all a part of the evolution of spirit.

"the Manuscript describes the progress of succeeding generations as an evolution of understanding, an evolution toward a higher spirituality and vibration. Each generation incorporates more energy and accumulates more truth and then passes that on to the people of the next generation who extend it further." ~ James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

Becoming

Written by Robert Ballard, his response to reading; "The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell".

“For me, The Power of Myth reinforced my view that life is a series of journeys, circles within circles on which you travel through time and space within yourself.

Each journey begins with a dream that grows into a passion to do something important in life. That passion motivates you to learn, to prepare yourself to fulfill your dream.

Finally, you begin the journey itself, which is in my case commonly becomes an expedition to find something lost or unknown.

During this journey I know I will be tested by the storm we must all experience. Some storms will test your mental preparation, but the most challenging will test the strength of your passion and your willingness to endure those storms to reach your goal. And I have learned that all storms will pass: the skies clear and your quest is achieved.

But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned.

Then and only then can you begin your next journey in life as the process repeats itself, as you constantly become.”

 "Life is the act of becoming, that you never arrive. We climb our mountains not for the view we have once we reach the summit, but because we love the process of climbing, of becoming". ~ J Campbell, "The Power of Myth"

Throughout our life, through the stages, we must allow ourself the pause to reflect before we can move forward, onward.

Sharing

Share your joy with others. Simply living a happy life gives us much to pass around.

Living well and happily is no small accomplishment. It means that we are doing something right, that we understand some basic truths about living and prospering in this world.

Life is fundamentally simple, but recognizing this and actually simplifying our lives requires a strong and mindful resolve, the strength of character to resist the complicated aspects of life that lead to self-destruction.

What we come to know through happy living are the profound lessons passed down through saints and sages.

Appreciating joy in our lives and sharing it with others enhances and increases its presence for us.

Share your joy.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much. ~ Albert Schweitzer