"You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club". Jack London
I an truly blessed to have experienced deep peace at times in my life because it has shown me a vision of what can be due to the profound sense of calm and equilibrium that is available to all of us with just a slight mental shift.
Affirmations: I embrace my responsibility to my family and my passion to act in integrity with my most sacred and engaged self.
I respect and nurture my body, mind and spirit.
I embrace my resistance to change (shadow) and use it to empower me to reach my goals.
I know I am capable of amazing things.
I easily meet and overcome challenges.
I inspire others to take action.
I effortlessly reach my goals.
I am a success.
I am becoming the essential me.
Inspiring Images & Ideas for my next step
After the disastrous Battle of Arderydd,
Merlin goes mad and spends years as a wild man in the woods,
before he emerges into his full power as a magician and seer.
"If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line -- starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King's Highway past the appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and finally cross the River of Death and enter the Celestial City. But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circling or a doubling back. I have been in the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, but I have seen them only in looking back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led -- make of that what you will."
Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with "Old Grit," his profound professor of New Testament Greek. "You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time."
"And how long is that going to take?"
"I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps."
"That could be a long time."
"I will tell you a further mystery," he said. "It may take longer."
Description and excerpt from Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Psychopomps
Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in
many religions
whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls
to the afterlife.
Archangel Gabriel
