"If you could imagine
the most incredible story ever,
it would be less incredible than the story of being here.
And the ironic thing is
that story is not a story,
it is true.
It takes us so long to see where we are.
It takes us even longer to see who we are.
This is why the greatest gift you could ever dream is a gift that you
can only receive from one person.
And that person is you yourself.
Therefore, the most subversive invitation
you could ever accept is the
invitation to awaken to
invitation to awaken to
who you are and where you have landed.
Plato said in The Symposium
that one of the greatest privileges of a human life
Plato said in The Symposium
that one of the greatest privileges of a human life
is to become midwife
to the birth of the soul in another.
to the birth of the soul in another.
When your soul awakens,
you begin to truly inherit your life.
You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces,
repetitive talk and weary roles
and slip deeper into the true adventure
of who you are
and
who you are called to become.
The greatest friend of the soul
The greatest friend of the soul
is the unknown.
Yet we are afraid of the unknown
because it lies outside our vision and our control.
We avoid it or quell it by
Yet we are afraid of the unknown
because it lies outside our vision and our control.
We avoid it or quell it by
filtering it through our protective barriers
of domestication and control.
of domestication and control.
The normal way never leads home."
by John O'Donohue
Speaker, writer,wordsmith - a friend
who died January 3rd 2008
