Mystical Journey (a wayfarer's humble opinion)

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Mystical Journey

 

Life is a journey from the outside in. Many would not understand that

statement but there it is. Life is not something to save for, it isn't

something to anticipate, it isn't something to remember. Life is none of

those things. Life is this moment, this split second where consciousness

meets consciousness. It is here where existence is most powerful.

Many take life so seriously, many save every penny against a time where

there will be no pennies. Many worry and fret so about what they did in the

past they do not see the present only worry more that the past will be in

the future. And it will if we think it is so.

Life is this moment the universe and you come alive each within the other.

It is this time when you take your first waking breath and the universe

holds you in Its infinite hands as you hold it in yours. It is a loving

expression of Being.

This mystical journey begins when we come to realize that things are not

what they seem. We begin first to notice that others do not feel what we

feel. There seems to be something missing in them. But is it in them that

it is missing or are all those others a reflection of our selves at this

moment in time?

The mystical journey is a tight rope and as a loving friend stated it is

razor sharp and will cut us. But this is not physical it is emotional.

Like a two edged sword it cuts away that which we no longer need, it

dispenses with attachments. It brings forth our most dreaded fears and our

most highest ideas and place both in front of us. Neither these qualities

of life are easy to look at.

 

Our fears are manifested in love rejected. Our fears are our feelings of

not being good enough, or wise enough to be what we so dearly want to be.

They come up in doubts and in the language of others who say you are wrong

or you are crazy. It is an insane person who can take on the world and say

my beliefs are right and the rest are wrong. We go against the majority and

in doing so we are severed from their system of thought. Our fears will

come to us in so many ways, some in a loved one who says no to our offer of

love. You see by offering your love you are actually attaching yourself to

it and the person you offer it to. You are trying to bind them to you.

That is being attached and love knows no attachments, it needs none. So you

feel rejected and it is your feelings, your being attached to a hopeful

outcome. You see there are no outcomes for every moment is new and there is

no finished product. This is the fear that we most need to face, laugh at

it as a caricature in a play. Know what it is and let it go. Oh yes, you

can let it go...it is easier than you think. You just do it. Fear is

yourself showing you exactly what you need to do. You just accept the

present and do it.

Our highest ideals are those qualities that bring us closes to the

Universal Thought, to God , to The All. I rather like the term "The All"

simply because it has no designation, neither female nor male and I so

dislike saying It. Still to each their own. Our ideals change as we grow

within and it will always do so. But trying to be the best we can is really

the only ideal we can accomplish. We can set our sites on sainthood but

even the saints were human and they too were not infallible. So in many

ways our Highest Ideas can in some way limit us through the fear of not

achieving them. It is something to take a look at. If we are the best we

can be we are accomplishing the work we accepted to accomplish. If on the

other hand we set up an ideal so far above us (or seemingly so) that we have

no hope of accomplishing it. We will miss the mark totally. But if we are

the best we can be well than the mark everyday is hit and we change to set a

new mark. That is the most profoundest thing in the world to do. Do not

set your sight so high that you cannot achieve it. Sometimes, sometimes,

little steps will turn into giant leaps of understanding and from the center

of your Being enlightenment comes like a ray of light shimmering on the

pathway of your journey.

 

It is not important what way you choose on your path. The importance lies

in the fact you know you are the path, you are the journey and you are the

mystical creature walking it every moment of your life.

 

 

By

Jeannie Horn

Oct. 6 2001