Sacred Ground

We need a solid ground to stand on to look yonder

Safety is an illusion. In a world where everything is changing and nothing remains the same for any sensible period of time, there is no such thing as solid ground. We must learn to surf the waves of change and to do that, we need to ground ourselves in certainty. What certainty do I mean? Know deep inside you don’t really know yourself and you need two important skills to adapt and advance in life, learn to treat yourself as if you were taking care of someone you really cared for [Jordan Peterson]; and secondly, know deep inside that everything at the end is going to be ok… and if it is not ok, then it is not the end.

What I call Connecting the Dots is an attitude towards life; it is curiosity and decisiveness to follow what is revealed. There is a crumb trail to follow, to go back to our Source, back Home. It has been left by the Intelligence that lives in you, luring you to your true Self where everything makes sense; not because you will have it all figured out, but because you will flow with whatever comes your way.

The existential restlessness

Some articles back we stated: if you don’t have objectives, a strategy, and an action plan, then you are part of someone else’s plan. There is an emptiness to life and if you don’t act purposely, then you are a dot in someone’s plan; maybe even one of the personalities that live in you, and not necessarily the wisest one. “Our heart is restless until it rests in You”, affirms scholar and catholic saint Augustine of Hippo of the 1st Century AD in his Confessions. I believe this restlessness is an existential-hole embedded in all of us, in our most inner Self, as it were, a realization of our emptiness in the presence of the “I am”.

It is like being on the border of a cliff looking at the Infinite in the horizon; there is no standing still, obstacles and circumstances push us off the cliff… always longing for more; aspiring for us to fly into the abyss of beingness.

No-thing can quench this fire, nor can idle experiences acquired without merit. We long for completeness and nothing can satisfy it. Primarily, the basic premise is that life is fundamentally suffering because, somewhere deep down, we are aware of the immensurable hole of our incompleteness, and we are ever looking to complete that existential void.

A deeper I is the source of our restlessness

If there is a crowd of personalities that live inside me, there is at least one of these, I dare not call it a personality (ie. mask). For me, it is a He, and He does not rapture me and engulf me in thinking, feeling or acting His energy in a particular direction. Rather, He speaks to me softly, He does not tell me what to do, say or act, instead He cautions me what-not-to-do. He is so soft-spoken that if I am loud in my head, I will disregard Him or maybe not even hear Him. This voice will not command or be pushy, He is not one of the siren voices of Ulises, He is a soft and gentle whisper.

In the Bible we have an account of this in the revelation of Elijah:

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind.

After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire.
And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face

1 Kings 19: 11-13 NKJV of the Bible

Ancient man believed that if he saw the Divine, death would befall him. Therefore, respect and reverence were the appropriate attitudes, hence covering the head. For Socrates the whisper he experienced he called it daemon, a “sign” or divine spirit that guided him and cautioned him on what not to do or avoid. This lives in all of us and is the true voice of God in us. The cornerstone that sustains the House we need to build. A building that can sustain whatever life throws at us. But we need to seek it, make way for it in our lives. Seek silence, be respectful and patient… it will let itself be heard. But first, as is in all meaningful endeavors, we must first do the work.

Original picture @MarcoVerch at Flickr

You are the Sacred Ground

When Moises encountered the Burning Bush in the book of Exodus, he covered his eyes; then the voice said to take his sandals off. Both are symbols of an attitude to face the Sacred. Humility and respect are your only safeguards when confronting the Divine.

Your life is the Sacred Ground!

Your solid footing is your eagerness and willingness to submit to your Life demands for you. Follow your path back to your Source. Knock on the door; who knows, it just may open and you will see your Self saying back to you: I am He.

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[1] A insightful reflection on the subject, Jordan Peterson;