Today I embarked on a new journey
A number of weeks ago I rec'd a call from a friend and mentor saying she had recommended me for a telecourse called "Noble Purpose", being offered by the author Barry Heerman. I was intrigued when I learned that Barry had been influenced by Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Life"
You may recall I spent 40 days of blogs struggling with that book and sharing my thoughts here and so I thought "Shit! I DID miss something". Time to go back and take a second look through someone else's eyes. Well I had my first class this morning and one of the activities associated with the class is journaling so I decided to begin to journal/blog here again and share my process with you ....
So Chapter 1 begins with this quote from Carlos Castenada
"Keep in mind that a path is only a path; If you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any condition. This is not an affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. Does the path have heart? ... One (path) makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse life. One makes you strong; the other weak." Hmmmm?
So what do you think, Shea ... does your path have heart? The path itself has heart, more heart than I have ever known in any pursuit but I feel like the the shaft of wheat from the Parable of the sower, you know the one "The sower went out to sow his seed and as he sowed some of the seed fell by the wayside for the whole thing go to Matt 13:2-23. Anyway I feel like the seed that fell among thorns ... "others fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them" not any external thorns though it would be easy to find lots of people, circumstances et al to call my thorns but no. They's all internal ones; all mine! So if the life or heart is being choked out of my path, it is simply because I'm being overwhelmed by the very thing that I am ready to heal. In other words to quote Dr. Eve "You are not co-operatin' with yer own healin' I dont know how many of you will get the reference to Dr. Eve but if you do ... you get to look into the casket with me and say "Betcha didn't think I'd make it did ya mamma!"
So what can I tell you except in Chapter 2 when the little boy stood in front of the GIGANTIC yellow school bus (in my case it was the stop sign at the corner of Yonge and Victoria Sts in Aurora, Ontario in August of 1955)and he was overwhelmed by the scale of life and at that moment the concern about me arose like a fundamental dissonance that has since cascaded through my life. So does my path have heart? Yes but i'm not sure I have the heart for it.
Chapter 3 begins the spiral upward (boy am I ready for an upward spiral)It is the step of initiating a new relationship to the Universe, the Purna of The ALL. To quote Bro. David Steindl-Rast " ... see with the eyes of trust that the cosmos is in fact prepared for us, like a nurturing home. We have a right to feel at home here in the universe. It has been marvellously created to be hospitable to human life ... If we entrust ourselves to that fundamental sense of belonging to the universe, things go well, and we can make sense of even the worst that happens to us."(Music of Silence 110) quoted in Noble Purpose
You may recall I spent 40 days of blogs struggling with that book and sharing my thoughts here and so I thought "Shit! I DID miss something". Time to go back and take a second look through someone else's eyes. Well I had my first class this morning and one of the activities associated with the class is journaling so I decided to begin to journal/blog here again and share my process with you ....
So Chapter 1 begins with this quote from Carlos Castenada
"Keep in mind that a path is only a path; If you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any condition. This is not an affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. Does the path have heart? ... One (path) makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse life. One makes you strong; the other weak." Hmmmm?
So what do you think, Shea ... does your path have heart? The path itself has heart, more heart than I have ever known in any pursuit but I feel like the the shaft of wheat from the Parable of the sower, you know the one "The sower went out to sow his seed and as he sowed some of the seed fell by the wayside for the whole thing go to Matt 13:2-23. Anyway I feel like the seed that fell among thorns ... "others fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them" not any external thorns though it would be easy to find lots of people, circumstances et al to call my thorns but no. They's all internal ones; all mine! So if the life or heart is being choked out of my path, it is simply because I'm being overwhelmed by the very thing that I am ready to heal. In other words to quote Dr. Eve "You are not co-operatin' with yer own healin' I dont know how many of you will get the reference to Dr. Eve but if you do ... you get to look into the casket with me and say "Betcha didn't think I'd make it did ya mamma!"
So what can I tell you except in Chapter 2 when the little boy stood in front of the GIGANTIC yellow school bus (in my case it was the stop sign at the corner of Yonge and Victoria Sts in Aurora, Ontario in August of 1955)and he was overwhelmed by the scale of life and at that moment the concern about me arose like a fundamental dissonance that has since cascaded through my life. So does my path have heart? Yes but i'm not sure I have the heart for it.
Chapter 3 begins the spiral upward (boy am I ready for an upward spiral)It is the step of initiating a new relationship to the Universe, the Purna of The ALL. To quote Bro. David Steindl-Rast " ... see with the eyes of trust that the cosmos is in fact prepared for us, like a nurturing home. We have a right to feel at home here in the universe. It has been marvellously created to be hospitable to human life ... If we entrust ourselves to that fundamental sense of belonging to the universe, things go well, and we can make sense of even the worst that happens to us."(Music of Silence 110) quoted in Noble Purpose
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