masters at climbing the mountains of the world instead of breaking trail to the center of our woundedness. We can become masters at driving fast cars through the night instead of moving through the dark corners of our mind. We can become masters at seducing strangers in the name of love instead of embracing the softer, less perfect aspects of who we are.
Seeking in the world has always been a way to mirror to us where we need to work inwardly, but seeking danger outside has always been a way to divert the soul’s cry for us to take a genuine risk inside.
-- Meditate on something you are seeking. It may be love, power, wealth, or the thrill of jumping out of a plane, or the recognition of being famous.
-- Now imagine that what you seek already lives within you, and as you breathe, hold what you seek before your mind’s eye like a door you must enter if you are ever to be whole.
-- Inhale deeply, and feel what you seek as a part of your spirit that needs attention.
-- Exhale deeply, and though you may not know how, give yourself this attention.”
The Book of Awakening. Mark Nepo, 2011 edition, Conari Press, San Francisco, pg. 370.
