September 5, 2024

Article highlights:

  • What is your IT?
  • Which comes first, knowing or doing?
  • A Message from Wisdom

Interestingly several of you replied to my mailing last week called, My Life’s Changing, How About Yours?   Many of you are experiencing a lot of shifting too, it seems. 

More than one of you mentioned you’ve been focused on being and now need to start doing.  BUT you feel a little in the dark because you don’t know what to focus on.  You don’t feel clear what IT is you should take action on.  It seems like an unclear path through dimly lit woods.

It can be very chicken or egg, right?  Which comes first, knowing or doing?  That’s an interesting spiritual question. 

Does knowing what IT is need to come before doing IT?

As I ponder your remarks, it seems useful to share a message I received on that topic. 

A Message From Wisdom
There is No Path Until it is Walked

“In truth, there is no path until it is walked.  Thus, to find out what your IT is, simply begin somewhere, taking a step as best you can.  You have heard this before, yes?  Why?  At this stage it is about building up energy, not about knowing your specifics. 

At this stage a step can even end up being completely wrong yet still be the right first, or next, step.  That’s because it is not about getting it right.  It’s about building energy toward your intention to be newly engaged, to make changes, reinvent or birth anew.  Your intent is to create the path.

Act on that intention, with only the expectation of getting into action.  Action supports your desire to discover, to unfold, to learn, to engage, to create.  This is very compelling to the energies of creation within your personal universe.

Choose another stepping stone to put in front of yourself and act on it.  Those stepping stones give movement.  The movement creates a path, the path – though seemingly to nowhere – takes you to something that leads to something else, and so on.  

This builds energy that ultimately creates shape and form. 

The problem for many is that you give up after only a few steps are taken.  So the energy doesn’t accumulate but leaks away.  Avoid this peril.  Do not abandon yourself.

Persist without self-judgement, bringing to the process more enjoyment, more curiosity and interest.  Give your process generous amounts of your determination and willingness to be active.  It will reward you, that is certain.”

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Over time I’ve come to call this “living the path into being” using the energy of active participation.  The key is realizing that the purpose of the many first steps is to use action to build up energy.

Knowing the IT – the ONE final thing – is not the point yet.  Wisdom has said over and over to me, “De-emphasize WHAT, quit trying to define IT, focus on being purposefully active each day.  Rubbing sticks together will result eventually in lighting your own special fire.”

That said, I leave you to ponder how you’ve seen this in your own life already, and what it means now.  Next week, I’ll give you an idea of what that’s looked like for me and where I am regarding my “work” changes.

Raising a glass to change,

With love,
Mayet

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