The defining moment in my life that shifted the way I was thinking...and brought me to ubuntu.
Great question. Tough to answer.
In the sense of living and breathing and working and playing.
This piece, written by one of my favourite authors / poets / psychoanalysts / storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estes, sums up everything I have felt since becoming awakened to the larger world outside of me and to my duty to participate in it.
I have felt compelled to act, so inspired from moments in my life, and taken great action, only to feel completely blundered and lost about what to do with the lessons learned and my emotions from seeing certain things that are burnt into my mind and heart. I then have taken periods of great rest from doing anything good. I have leapt into life transforming situations, and then cowered away and cried. I have burst into tears, feeling the pressure of the world on my shoulders. Our shoulders. I have surrendered and prayed to the Universe to show me the way and then I have numbed myself from my sorrows in not hearing the answer. I am sure others have felt this call and not known what the heck to do with it. And in her "We Were Made for These Times", Clarissa sums it up. Here is a short excerpt with a link to the real thing. You must...you must read this.
"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate."
Read the rest here: http://theunboundedspirit.com/we-were-made-for-these-times/
Showing my soul is all that I am able to maintain through all the trying and failing and doing and not doing. So. Get outta here despair. More trying is on the way.
I have felt compelled to act, so inspired from moments in my life, and taken great action, only to feel completely blundered and lost about what to do with the lessons learned and my emotions from seeing certain things that are burnt into my mind and heart. I then have taken periods of great rest from doing anything good. I have leapt into life transforming situations, and then cowered away and cried. I have burst into tears, feeling the pressure of the world on my shoulders. Our shoulders. I have surrendered and prayed to the Universe to show me the way and then I have numbed myself from my sorrows in not hearing the answer. I am sure others have felt this call and not known what the heck to do with it. And in her "We Were Made for These Times", Clarissa sums it up. Here is a short excerpt with a link to the real thing. You must...you must read this.
"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate."
Read the rest here: http://theunboundedspirit.com/we-were-made-for-these-times/
Showing my soul is all that I am able to maintain through all the trying and failing and doing and not doing. So. Get outta here despair. More trying is on the way.
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