Path to Wisdom and Self

It's easy to get lost in the daily grind of our lives.  The constant familiarity that blankets our world until a newness enters, sometimes as quiet as a whisper and other times a cosmic hurricane that shakes up the soul.  New pieces of the self surface, sometimes surprising even yourself, sometimes showing unknown strength, and sometimes dark shame.  For better or worse the pieces shed light to inner revelations giving opportunity for learning and change.

We must recognize the humanness within ourselves.  We are perfectly imperfect.  All of us are souls trying to find our way through the haze, distractions and temptations of life.  It's a journey that, if done just so, we will realize is here to help us grow and attain wisdom. It's a journey that will stretch us far beyond what we desire.  It's a journey that will shed light on inner darkness and will bring joy and sorrow.  Life is where we unlock the secrets of ourselves.

Sometimes we lose our way, giving into illusions and a need to escape the humdrum existence of our current circumstance.  A brief deliverance to help us forget not only our lives, but ourselves.  But when reality returns, we must journey on, moving forward, a journey that is ours alone to work out with fear and trembling.

There are other souls that will cross their paths on ours....Other souls that will intertwine, dance with and sometimes fool ours for a little while.  Some shall encircle and fill us with beauty beyond words, lifting us up with inner love, causing such intense yearning and enchantment it rattles us to the core, and others will shatter all that we are, bit by bit or all at once.  This is all part of the path of wisdom.  Each soul leaving lessons imprinted on each other. For through the fire we shall be burned anew, shedding our chrysalis and soaring to new heights within if we choose.

Yes, indeed, we are perfectly imperfect.  We are young and old. We are wise and dumb.  We are learning.  We are growing.

We are human.