Learn to go with the flow of life no matter what comes to challenge you. Keep yourself calm and steady and know that this too shall pass. Attend to everything with equal measure of attention and seriousness, keeping in mind that life’s challenges are your greatest moments to learn, explore, and grow. To go with the flow is to accept but not acquiesce, to accept the challenge but not acquiesce to old behaviors—to accept the challenge to change. For that is life in its essential wholeness, a challenge to change.
Intend a beautiful world. Intend loving compassion. Intend kindness. Intend equality and justice for all. Intend that “for the greater good of all” become the mantra for change. Intend a new and better world, but also act with loving compassion and kindness. Promote equality and justice and work for the greater good of all. In this manner change yourself and the world. Play your part in the beautification of your world, within and without.
Let love be your guide into calmness, stillness, and balance. Let nothing bother you because love quiets you, body and mind. Let love keep you aligned with your spirit so that nothing causes fear or worry. Let love permeate you with joy so that nothing causes pain. Let love be your guide, your mentor and your partner.
Learn to be receptive as well as giving. Receptivity is the ability to receive without judgment or criticism. It is the ability to let come to you that which is necessary and good for you in the flow of life, that which offers to lead and guide you, everything from help and healing to communications with spirit guides, as well as that which shows you the next step to take on your path of heart. With love and innocence in your heart, open up to receive. This is often harder to do than to give, but it might just offer the breakthrough you’ve been looking for. Without fear, receive.
Organizing my tools for easy access, I discover eccentric looking wrenches I may have used only once. Truth is, I don’t even remember what for. What to do with these valuable but perhaps once in a lifetime project savers, as well as the countless mini hex wrenches and screwdrivers that accompanied furniture projects to be assembled?
I soberly face the hidden truth of my tool hoarding, and perhaps all hoarding as well: eternal life parks its spirit in the material items of this life. The belief is that someday all items will be used. The someday of hoarding encapsulates infinity, life without end; never throw anything out.
Spirit is eternal life. Spirit is the intent that manifested our physical world to take material journeys with its infinite spirit. The Faustian small print of that agreement is the actual short life of all things material. We crave to live spirit in the flesh, yet spirit as trickster dares us to face our material mortality.
This bipolar human condition is the opposition of infinite spirit and mortal body. When we inflate we momentarily commune with infinity. This is the motive behind all addictions. The spirit to obtain unlimited more—be it the compulsion to pile boundless money, to ingest bottomless drug or food, to collect vast wardrobe and material goods, or to cling to relationship—is the quest to experience infinite spirit in material form.
Deflation and depression are the crash of Icarus: the material world is a world of limitation. Once spirit approaches material limits, it abandons its projected love object. The result is that we deflate into a spiritless morass. That which once glowed with transpersonal union is judged as both human ignorance and failure.
Sobriety is the path that intends acceptance of human limitation while maintaining a relationship with spirit. The shamans of ancient Mexico concluded each introduction of their personal names with the caveat: “…a being who is going to die.” This was their technology of sobriety. By constantly reaffirming their mortality they freed themselves to be fully present and spiritedly alive to every moment of life in human form.
This attitude of ultimate equanimity countered the misguided but powerfully embedded human attitude that we have forever. Hence, we needn’t acknowledge the shadow of death that stalks us all.
Yes, we may have forever in spirit form, but this appears to be our only opportunity to be in the specific human life we are in. If we languish in spirit identification without actualizing in human form, potential fulfillment will have to wait for another time, in another place, in a different life.
Without spirit we could not exist in the flesh. Yet spirit demands we take responsibility for reconciling the fact of our bipolar human condition. Spirit presents us with countless material false god trials onto which it projects itself. The inflations and deflations of human life lead us to stare down the trickster side of spirit and realize the possible in the life we are in.
With this, spirit is enhanced and fulfilled, both in this life and in its ultimate journey beyond.
May all find the fortitude to truly realize their Spirit in the Flesh.
