To those of you (am I perhaps talking to myself too?) who have not yet found their path: you are a river diverted. Your flow is holy and still an animating force, but it may have long ago been directed in an unnatural way. As long as you keep moving, a change of direction is always possible!
You are that movement and the energy that powers it. It is within you, but also seeks to lead you beyond yourself. No outside force could ever slow it, but it can be used against you. Or, even if not directly used against you personally, it can be stolen and harvested commercially. The theft of flow is not dissimilar to electricity theft! Think of a power line with hundreds of extra, unauthorized hookups attached to it, and the effect that this will inevitably have on the grid that powers it!
Does it sometimes feel like rolling blackouts have come for your life force? If so, seek to discover what is tapping into your grid! Are you consuming more than you are creating? By consuming what is beneath you, you also lower yourself! Mindless consumption is itself an expenditure that feeds off the beating energy of your intrinsic humanity! Seek instead refuges of inflowing energy, for example, the stories of heroic lives and great works of universal beauty—blessed are these fire hydrants of the soul!
Friends, the life force of your humanity is not lost! Dim stars still burn at incomprehensible temperatures! Love beyond yourselves! If you can still eke out one unanswerable question while meditating upon the stars, there is hope left! Here is proof that you are not numb to the scale of impossible grandeur that is beyond all human understanding! To feel wonder at this inhuman grandeur is to be precisely human!
There is no scientist in the world that can tell you the “why” of life, and there never will be. Do not turn away from comparing your single mortal life to the scale of the universe; embrace how infinitesimally small you are when contrasted with the universals of time and space! Confront the relative nothing you are by comparison—but not completely nothing—your consciousness and your physical body can assure you of that! In diminishing ourselves in our minds to the smallest molecule, a God’s eye view of our little selves—it is possible to find the beginning of something so meaningful in this imagined singularity that it is bound to sprout a big bang within you!
Oh, diverted rivers! How blessed we are to still be rivers! What seems like a new, erratic veering might just be the beginning of our real steering!
Love this one! Individual introspection and philosophy for all human kind--rolled into one huge statement.