(Written in November 2004)
\nA friend is having trouble with the idea that \u201cyou create your own life.\u201d I think it\u2019s a reflection of Western Culture\u2019s obsession with control and refusal to accept vulnerability.\u00a0 I used the image of a sailboat to express my sense of it: we don\u2019t control the wind or the tide, we do control our handling of the boat.\u00a0 I also told her something about chaos mathematics, and holding a vision as providing a \u201cstrange attractor\u201d.\u00a0 Sitting here now I\u2019m thinking that the idea of \u201ccreating my own life\u201d feels very narrow and claustrophobic.\u00a0 I\u2019d much rather see my life as a co-creation \u2014 something I do with the people who are closest to me, and all the other people and creatures on the planet, and Spirit for sure.\u00a0 My life is like a river, taking its shape partly by the amount and direction of its flow, but also by the conditions of the territory it\u2019s flowing through.\u00a0 What I call the \u201ccenter line of my life\u201d is something that I find rather than create, or perhaps something I created before I incarnated this time, something that I can choose to align with or not, something that I\u2019m always finding more out more about as I continue on the path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Written in November 2004) A friend is having trouble with the idea that \u201cyou create your own life.\u201d I think it\u2019s a reflection of Western Culture\u2019s obsession with control and refusal to accept vulnerability.\u00a0 I used the image of a … Continue reading