Can you feel the path that lies before you? Can you keep your eyes on the path rather than the distractions that are off it? Can you keep your mind on the next step rather than the destination? Can you let your soul lead you to the place the universe has prepared for you?
Sometimes I return to these and I wonder about my word choice. The juxtaposition of feeling, seeing, and being led. Three different ways to progress. While they are related, they are different. Seeing is concrete, feeling is less so and being led requires neither feeling nor seeing but something between trust and surrender.
Of the three, I’m the most comfortable with seeing. I want to know what is in front of me and strategize about how to make it better. That requires more than feeling or being led. But I’m learning that much of what I see is illusory or conditional. I see a lot less than I think I do. Feeling my way forward is uncomfortable but in some ways, I have more faith in what I feel than what I see.
As you read this I wonder:
Are you seeing, feeling, or being led today? Why is that?
Can you allow yourself to continue in the face of distraction, to not let what happens around you always change what happens within you?
Can you trust yourself or another enough to be led in peace?
Being led is the hardest. For me at least, it’s hard to trust myself enough to lead without assessment. Oddly, there are people around me I trust more than myself, maybe not to see but to feel or to lead. This week, can you connect more closely with yourself and with others so that you have more faith in what you feel and see?
