The Travel Bug…

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I read words of travel lore and desire today that were so very true. They reminded me of many travel moments, my battered suitcases piled on the sidewalk, where I knew I had longer ways to go without the means. But I thought no matter, the road is life and I’ll get there eventually…

Like you, my dear reader, I’m no stranger to the grip of the adventurous spirit, it tugs and gnaws at you from all angles, and although you may resist for a time it is still there lurking in the shadows of your reality. It tends to strike you at random moments; in the middle of the night, stuck in a traffic jam, munching away gazing into the middle distance, and in any other number of weird and wonderful configurations of reality.

I say, whether it be the next suburb or the next continent, take advantage when the travel bug strikes–venture forth into obscurity! Regulate your imagination by your traveled reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are! The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page…

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

Jusqu’à la prochaine fois que nous rencontrons…
Cedric

Entering the Doorway of Life – Shrinking Before Expanding

Occasionally our lives shrink before expanding. We might be cultivating ourselves spiritually, acting in alignment with the universe, chasing our dreams, and questioning why we’re still confronting choke-points of all kinds – fiscal, mental, emotional, physiological. Perhaps we even experience ourselves as though we’ve forgotten our spirituality, enclosed in a shadowed room with no windows and no way out. Were disoriented and demoralized by what constitutes a lack of advance. Though occasionally this is the manner in which our actions play out. Similar to a caterpillar that encloses itself in a dainty cocoon prior to developing wings and flying, we’re experiencing the dusk before the dawn.

When our actions feel constricting, it is easy to feel anxious or choose to behave somehow to relieve the feeling of shrinking. We may also consume ourselves mentally, attempting to grasp why our actions are the way they are. Nevertheless, there’s nothing we´re expected to act on at this moment except to be tolerant and persevering. The key is to become more conscious and mindful that we’re processing the transformation from one phase to another. The more we yield to the experience, the easier it will be to travel through our constricting actions and into the wide-open views of the other side. Comparable to a baby working its way down through the birth canal, we might feel compressed, pressured and uncomfortable, however if we understand that we’re now born into a fresh reality, we’ll discover the strength to continue.

Just as we suffer the contractions, we can also discover serenity inside ourselves whenever we remember to believe in the universe. If we look to nature for divine guidance, we witness that all beings resign to the march of birth. In this form of surrender, and in the core of one’s own heart, lives a willingness to trust in the unknown as we walk our solemn paths through the doorway of life.

By Cedric Jean