The Unknown Reveals Itself

Soul Meetings

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other...Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes directions.”

Pablo Coelho (Eleven Minutes)

We humans are a piece of work, aren't we? We hang on, and resist, and deny, and bend the hoop until it snaps to prevent whatever comes next from happening. We hate to admit that we don't know what's best, that we can't control outcome, and that we are not in charge of anything. We are like rat terriers; we'd rather have our teeth pulled out than let go and allow the hand of inevitability to win. Usually, we only loosen our grip when we hit our limit, and the muscles of will-power fail us.

The irony lies in its futility. Always and ever, change is the order of the day. We can go with the flow, or fling ourselves into its middle like a bolder in a creek in our effort to stem the tide. Either way, change will come over and around us, transforming us into what comes next. Human institutions—whether nations or corporations, religions or boards of directors, families or friendships—are living entities, and all will change. If we can allow and even embrace that change, if we can let life have its way, “the unknown will reveal itself, and our universe will change directions,” maybe even for the better. Today, let's live with loose hands and open souls.

                                                             In the Spirit,

                                                                  Jane