Path

The is no set path, just follow your heart.

Coincidences

There are a few books that I like to revisit from time to time. The Celestine Prophecy is one of them. This book is a first-person narrative of the narrator's spiritual awakening as he goes through a transitional period of his life. During his journey, he begins to notice instances of synchronicity, which is the realization that coincidences may have deep meaning. And along the way he uncovers eleven insights to his enlightenment. Today I found myself thinking about his seventh insight.

The Seventh Insight: Engaging the Flow
In pursuit of our personal mission, we can discover an inner intuition that shows us where to go and what to do, and if we make only positive interpretations, brings a flow of coincidences that opens the doors for our mission to unfold. First we have a question; then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions that lead us towards the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

Alone

Alone is not the same as lonely.

Someone once told me that when you become more self aware and enlightened, you begin to move higher up on the universe's vibrational frequency. And then you begin to attract that same sort of vibrational energy and people into your life.

She used a metaphor-- it's like riding up in an elevator. Some people may get off on their floors and you may find yourself alone, riding up in the elevator for a while. But sure enough, someone new always gets on and rides with you again.

Conversion

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Mind

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

- Eckart Tolle

Comfort

com•fort
noun
• A condition or feeling of pleasurable ease, well-being, and contentment.
• The capacity to give physical ease and well-being.

"Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity."
-Jack Canfield

Optimism

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

-Winston Churchill