Walk On…
I wonder if you’ve ever had the experience where you’ve started this journey… and it’s exciting because it’s all new… you’re filled with curiosity about where all of this could possibly lead you… you’re walking this path …and then you realise that you’re in this forest… exploring… and all of a sudden it changes; you realise you are travelling along a very steep path that is getting more and more difficult to navigate… you fall and twist your ankle… and you’re sooo tired… yet still you continue… because you feel like there is something more important to be gained…
I recently read Carolyn Myss’ new book: ‘Defy Gravity’. I would like to share a passage with you (pg 207) where Carolyn is talking about the great writer Thomas Merton…
On a hot summer afternoon as he gazed upon the hillside from his hermitage window at the monastery, he noted how the warm breezes bent the flowers, and how the sunset made the hills look bluish-purple. He wrote that it was so hot that day that a bull was lying down under a tree, just waiting for the sun to set. But as he jotted down the small and precious details, he ended by writing, This day will never come again.
Life is short. Take steps towards making the changes that you want to make and doing the things that really matter to you.
The Himalaya's - Past the fallen trees onto the Summit
I wonder what would happen, having been in that dense forest… if all of a sudden, the trees start to thin … you reach the top of the mountain and the sun comes out… looking out… you realise that you can see farther than you have been able to see for a long time… and it all looks very different from up here… and you can look down and see the countryside, the little houses and the roads… and as you look at those roads you realise that they all lead somewhere… some of the roads lead to other roads, some roads have a lot of people on them and some have none, some roads lead to nowhere… and some of those roads lead to places that you’ve been… but they all lead somewhere… and you sit down to take it all in… you sit and you wonder… and somehow this makes a certain kind of sense to you…
