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Your Email Subscription Here! The locker door closed with a hollow sound that rang all the way down the long white hall. There was no one there but me. Putting the locker key in my pocket I walked away to spend the next few hours wondering how I had ended up completely alone at 1:00 in the morning in an airport, waiting for a the first flight out. My rush for freedom and adventure had all ended very badly and I was leaving with nothing more than what I grabbed as I was pushed out the door. It wasn’t that bad, it could have been worse. After all I was at the Hawaiian airport and I had time to take the bus to the beach and watch the waves for a few hours, and feel what it felt like to be homeless. But I knew it wasn’t what the truly homeless felt because I had friends waiting for me at home. So when I got off the plane leaving everything I owned behind, someone was waiting for me to give me a home until another friend found me a place I could rent. More friends helped, and slowly – very slowly – I made my way back from where I had put myself. Because that is exactly what I had done, it was my narrow minded, very unwise choices that put me in such a precarious situation. I had stepped away from those friends for a time, stopped listening, and done what the worldview and my impulses had suggested I do. I wanted to experience freedom, but instead I experienced prison. It is an interesting fact that when the human mind is released from what it thinks is a prison, unless it is brought into a higher awareness and grounded in Truth, it will always make things worse. Freedom run amuck is not freedom. It was only when I started listening again that I found my way back. I listened when a friend that I trusted said, “Get out and get out now.” With trust in her, but not in me, I pushed the relationship to the end, and found myself alone in the airport owning nothing but what I had put into the locker. But, I was safe once again because I had returned to those that I knew I could trust, and in that trust I found the freedom I had traded in for lies and deceit. That experience changed the focus of my life even though it took a long time to show itself in a form that was useful to others. I live a long way from that time and place and lack of home. As I write the snow falls outside and I marvel at how each flake falling together silently, calmly, steadily, and gently completely transforms the landscape. Now I find my freedom in helping others find theirs. They are just like those snowflakes, unique, individual, and yet together in community. As we work with clients I notice how often those in trouble turn away from others and into themselves instead of reaching out for help. Sometimes they don’t even know they are in trouble. We are so used to living narrow, just surviving, not truly loved lives. The worldview keeps us busy doing stuff. There are bosses to be satisfied, bills to be paid, kids to be cared for, lawns to be mowed, houses to be cleaned, and of course the list is endless. If we accept this as our human condition it will never get better. We may run off like I did into what looks like freedom, but it won’t be there. The only freedom is the one that releases us from the belief system, the point of view and the idea that we are human living a human condition. We are not. There are not two universes, one human and one Spiritual. There is not one that we have to learn how to manipulate to get to the other, so we can live happily ever after. There is only One now, and in that One we are now and forever living happily ever after. The idea is to see it, and then be obsessively vigilant in remaining in that awareness. This is hard to do alone. The worldview tries to tell us that believing in it and following our impulses will make us free. Of course this is always a lie and will always lead us to the prison of human needs and wants, and the fear of not enough. We all need a support system that reminds us of what we already know, that freedom is found only within the awareness of the Spiritual Oneness of us all. We can be like the snowflake, completely unique, but together as One in the awareness that we have always been free from the human condition and the worldview. We can silently, calmly, steadily, and gently completely transform the landscape of life, one at a time, beginning within and with Truth. Shifting With You!
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