There are times as we travel this road we call “life” that we begin to doubt that we know where we’re going. Stretching out before us, the road seems long and often contains detours. Thankfully we have access to maps and even high-tech GPS to help us know where we’re going when we set off on our travels in our vehicles. Not so with our travels through life. As we set off on our life’s path we often must make decisions about which road to take that will lead us to our goals and perhaps even to success. But that road will not be easy. We will experience wrong turns, confusion about which road is the best road; detours will cause us to wonder if we even know where we’re going. Discouragement sets in; fear eats at us as darkness falls over us and we find it more difficult to know the right road.
Is the road less traveled better than one where many have gone before? Good question! We can learn a lot from those who’ve gone before us. As guides they can provide us with pointers, but we must still find our own path through the woods. The road less traveled give us an opportunity to break new ground learn from our own experiences. The spiritual life is one in which we are called to travel the path that will ultimately lead to our own truth; the Truth within that will bring us an enlightenment experience that will help us overcome our fear and realize our purpose and the meaning of our life. The road before us leads through our heart-path lighting the way to our Inner Self – the Wisdom-Self of Divine knowing.
Nothing Good – Nothing Bad: I’ll just have to wait and see: I had an interview with a spiritual practitioner last week regarding my new book release: The Illusion of Life and Death: Mind, Consciousness, and Eternal Being. She told me a tale of the Chinese farmer who taught the lessons of nothing good, nothing bad: I’ll just have to wait and see. As the tale goes along, things happen to the farmer and his eldest son which sometimes appear to be good and sometimes appear to be bad. But what it seen as a good thing often turns out to be bad and what appears to be bad turns out to be a very good thing. Judging events or people too quickly can result in misjudging which ultimately may cause us to miss out on something very important that we need to learn. Perspective is key. We need to take the time to step back and reserve our judgment until we see the true outcome of a situation or a relationship.
As I’ve often told my children: Nothing is all good; nothing’s all bad. Out of seemingly good things, bad can result, and out of what we might think is bad, good things can come. Wait and see.