Our recent journey in the US wasn’t so much a patchwork of individual pieces but more like a tapestry of interwoven people, places and heart.
The final stitch came from Vista California. The blessing below is a radical call to freedom and action.
Our friends Chris and Mariko were our hosts. They are the international champions for the powerful healing plant Moringa.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
It’s a simple and powerful truth.
What if, when we don’t know there’s “a special knowing” that’s there for us?
Uncertainty is like spring. When a daffodil bulb feels the call of the sun warming the earth, it can’t see the light but it knows it’s there. And through a gesture of faith, it begins its journey to the light.
Why is it that we don’t ‘go‘ when we know we’ve got to?
Aren’t we amazing all the ways we hold ourselves back?
Yes, we can even hold ourselves back from going to the bathroom when we really need to. For some reason, we don’t want to get rid of our own waste when it’s time.
What if….. you could create a nuclear event of vast goodness?
What if….. you discovered you had more power as an agent of change than you’ve ever imagined?
What if….. you could give away a weight that’s been hanging around your neck for a long time, so long that you just got used to it?
If you could do any of these would you be willing to give up a habit that would change you and the world around you?
Not knowing how to do something or what’s around the next corner can feel terrifying even life threatening. ‘Not knowing‘ can be spooky and if we use old models of understanding a shock to our ego.
Venturing into the unknown can feel like climbing Mt. Everest.
Or being stopped as something as surreal as this pretend bullfighter.
When we hit the wall of our understanding, it’s an indicator that we’ve outgrown our old definitions for how we think our world should be.
Radical Sobriety-
The word sobriety has a meaning we attribute to not using drugs or alcohol to alter our consciousness. Sobriety can also be applied to how someone is thinking. It’s usually used when someone is thinking clearly- outside of the norm and often in radically different ways. Have you ever used the phrase “well that was sobering!”
