Mirrors!!

Photo by: Julie De Waroquier (i.e. a lucky web surfing run in)

I haven’t been writing as much recently. Not because of lack of inspiration but that my reaction to this life and the world around me often leaves me in such a deep state of awe that it’s almost too much to process and put into words. Life! What an enchanting journey! What a truly incredibly beautiful blessing! So often taken so for granted! We operate with such small perspectives….but maybe that is the true magic of it all.....perhaps much like newborns, knowing nothing, we spend all of our lives in a state of grand discovery…..we laugh and we cry.…with each step we take we begin to trust in ourselves… learning to walk and then to dance…to love and then to be free….all the while discovering everything that’s amazing around us….and all done in so many cute and clumsy small steps and profound doses.

Recently I remembered a moment from my past and unimaginably so it hasn't even been five years since…..but it seems like another life time ago at least....I remembered a ghost of my own past at the end of a tight rope.….so completely broken and defeated, lying on the floor, bawling her eyes out in utter despair, her head was so dark and so lost as she wished she had never existed...hating her life…and she felt engulfed in pain, hatred and fear….she had no voice inside her to help her fight back… she hadn’t realized yet that the prison around her had become too weak to hold her in….she had been there so long she had stopped even trying…you see? I remembered this wish in her heart in that bleak moment wanting only for everything to end. Did I know then that it would be the last time in my life I would ever feel that way!!? I was about to change everything! The ghost of my past was about to break all the shackles that held her there!

That moment on this journey in retrospect was significant as some moments just are- more so than others! That memory for me now felt sad and odd!... Odd….because I couldn't relate to that person at all… Sad…..because I felt a powerful urge to reach back into the past, to lift up this woman who was so spiritually broken and wrecked on the floor and share with her the ultimate secret!

I wanted to tell her ‘My poor dear!  You are going about it all wrong! Life was never intended to be like that! Life is meant to be amazing!  You have no idea! You are meant to grow and build your spirit….you are meant to open your eyes and your heart to discover the magic all around you! Live-learn-love life! SEE all the wonderful people who exist around you.….because when you’re ready to look every one of them will hold up a bright and colorful lantern to light up your path and they will encouragingly smile as you pass through….into this enchanted time and space given to you. I wanted to tell her to never forget that life is a journey of discovery of all that’s unspeakably grand and beautiful! I wanted to tell her ‘Oh Man! You are going to love this ride! Just hold tight!!’

My blog doesn't share my entire story….which one day it just might….but when I started it I wished to share, as I still do, the simplest and grandest messages I have learned that have changed everything for me! We all have moments that may seem bleak and that’s when it’s most important to remember….every person you meet, knowingly or unknowingly, holds a lantern to help you pass, or lends a hand to guide you, or places a stepping stone before you…..when we are ready to look we will find mirrors in every stranger’s eyes. Don’t forget to look and don’t forget there is no prison your spirit cannot break through!

Learning-Living-Life- Inspired’s message today is: Smile for the people around you! & Enjoy your specially designed enchanted ride….whatever you do…..don’t close your eyes and miss the magic!!!! NAMASTE!!

P.S. I like this quote from Carl Jung: The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semi-human, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."