Let yourself
get shaken up.
What are you
willing to give up to ensure your own unfolding,
and the
unfolding of what is holy in your life?
Where you
stumble, here is your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
I don’t
like getting “shaken up”! Perhaps we all have a longing for calm and smoothness
in our lives. I know I do … and I think a lot of it has to do with a sense of
inadequacy, of the nagging inability to cope, to deal with the things that
shake us.
Remember “No Pain, No Gain”;
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”? Essentially, it’s accurate. Perhaps
more of the mind and spirit than the body … but having had an aortic valve
replacement, a burst colon, colostomy and reversal, and a hole in my heart
repaired, my body too is much better than it was for the shaking up and repair
work! Each time, I gave up a bit of the fear of dying. New life unfolded.
I think any good life path,
religious or philosophical or whatever, will tell you to expect shaking up, to
engage with it, how to prepare yourself mentally and in spirit to do that … and
how to get help.
Number one: tame the Ego! (That’s what “turn your
life over to your higher power” means.)
Hope you have a great day of giving up and unfolding!
Brian+
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