I have just come back from a walk, and with each step I felt more and more how deeply I want to share this with you.
So often, those of us in pursuit of consciousness, of knowing thyself, speak about awareness, love, acceptance, receiving. These are precious, essential, the heart of the path, and yet they are only one side of the coin. They are the side of love.
On the other side is will. In our culture, will is usually spoken of as achieving, manifesting, reaching goals. And if things don’t happen as we want, then we suffer. We fall into despair, or search for refuge, in spirituality, in distractions, or in the many ordinary and extraordinary addictions we build to survive. And then, from that place, we try to build yet another little empire of what we think will finally make us okay.
But what if the primordial will is not to achieve, not to manifest, but to align?
What if the deepest will is the will to be in alignment with the very Source of life?
Without will, love can dissolve us into merging and becoming self effacing.
Without love, will can make us controlling, dominant, cut off from relationship.
The invitation now, my invitation to you, is to reunite these two powers of the universe. Not to focus on love alone, nor on will alone, but to direct our will toward alignment with consciousness, and from there to live in surrender to the unknown. Not surrendering out of weakness or passivity, but surrendering from strength, from presence, from the living fire of love and will joined together.
When we live this way, storms come and go, the calm comes and goes, and all of it is welcome. Success and failure, pleasure and pain, are only the mind’s measurements. But beneath them, we are already connected. The adventure is not about what happens, but about being aligned in the very midst of it all.
This is the path that excites me this autumn.
And I am offering spaces to explore it together:
And if you want a taste of practice in your daily life, I invite you to listen to my latest podcast episode: The Eight Keys of Communication, a doorway into staying in the field of intimate freedom.
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🍂 May this autumn be a season of alignment, a time of walking with both love and will, hand in hand, into the great unknown.
With love and passion for the precious fall during this fall, Elisabeth.