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Quantum Leaps
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Cycling Through The Cylces of Life
Written By Solessy
Today I was meditating with some friends and I suddenly had an image of the cycle of life that I would like to share with you. So first take a look at the 4 lines below and then perhaps you will be able to follow more clearly where I am coming from.
Okay, have you figured it out yet ? In my moment of clarity, I realised that spiritual enlightenment is also a cycle like anything else. We don�t just discover it; we are rediscovering it all the time.
At birth we come in to this world whole and pure. We are so full of just being, that our presence does not have to be announced. Our intention at that moment is complete. We know that we have started a new and exciting adventure but until we are able to go forth and realise the intention and purpose of our life long adventure we are just content to just bathe is our completeness. We draw people and energy towards us just by being. Take a look at the power of any baby, if they want food all they have to do is demand it and food comes running. No negotiation, no haggling, no backhanders. To add some subtlety, any mother who is breast feeding her baby knows that even if she is a distance away from her baby and her baby has decided that it is hungry then her body will instinctively start o let down milk spontaneously without her even having to look at or hear her child. Her child is so powerful that it can send out signals through a morphic field that tells Mama, �Come feed me, for I am hungry�. How completely omnipresent is that?
Then, not long after our power is demonstrated, perhaps from the age of five and for the next 10 to 15 years we start too loose our wholeness and completeness as the immediate people in our environment start to tell us how to live; what we should and shouldn�t do. What values we should carry, how adventurous or non adventurous we should be. We start taking on and mimicking their fears and limitations, until we become a complete replica of our environments ethos. And, instead of just being, we start doing things and as a result, we begin to loose our being-ness. Around the time of our teenage years we start trying and reassert ourselves, because we instinctively feel that we have lost something and indeed we have � our life�s purpose, our intentions, and our ability to just be. We regularly, at this age, question our parents, our society, ourselves, we tend to want to push against the culture we have been given the limitations that we swallowed whole and the picture of ourselves that just doesn�t ring true. Maybe some of us felt that we needed to express our anger and confusion or we need to belong to something by joining groups that we resonated with or that we visually and audibly felt the need to become louder to create a self expression. Maybe some of us went inside ourselves to look for the answers knowing that they were hidden there somewhere. Whatever it was, we all knew we were struggling to look for something - a path to wholeness, love and freedom.
When we reach adult hood we all become experts and masters of doing. We all do the things that are expected of us to do in order to fit in to our society, our environments the system. We come to realise that in order to make a decent living it is necessary for us to conform and those of us who do not conform feel the need to keep on searching for our truth no matter what our environment or our society says. Some of us of course become so disorientated that we loose our way altogether and begin to �click out� of society, until someone gives us a hand so we can �click� back in again. All in all, we become the masters of our own drama and the more dramas we have, the more visible we feel and that somehow gives of a sense of substance albeit a very fragile unsustainable one. We fall in love with others to feel whole, we eat to feel whole, and we join clubs and societies to be part of a whole not knowing that our wholeness begins and end with ourselves. Suddenly, as we have children and our years of work start to come to an end, we start feeling a small amount of breathing space; the lucky ones begin to understand what their lives were all about and who now they want to be.
Our vintage years bring about the wisdom we so deserve but it only comes about because we are not doing as much as we did in our early years. We become more reflective, softer. Our needs are neither so harsh nor urgent, we begin to mellow. Some folks feel the need to contribute and give back to their society, environment, families, to the man who has nothing down the road. And within that act of giving, slowly and gently comes that sense of being. A sense of who we really are, a realisation that you and me are the same and to give to you is to give to me. It is at this point that we may begin to re discover our original intentions, our Life�s Purpose and as we do that we have lit the fire of being once again. We begin to shed our doing-ness and gradually we make room for us to just be. As we start being as opposed to doing, we once again become present in the here and now and this type of present- ness has an aura which is full of PRESENCE. Look at Nelson Mandela!
Right now all I can say is our lives will carry an abundance of significance and meaning if we were to Re-discover our original intentions earlier rather than later. How much more fun could we pack in to our existence? How much more colour, smells, tastes, feelings and sounds could you cram in to your life? And at what height of infinite consciousness would you be at when you reach the twilight years of the beautiful adventure you called life here on earth? Take the journey and enjoy the art of just being.
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