Life Lessons

I've been reading a lot lately, which is wonderful for me. Now that I'm not working, I let myself wake up slowly and then I allow myself to read for however long I feel. I've been reading a series of books by Lynn V. Andrews, who is a shaman and an apprentice to a powerful Native American medicine woman. The books can be tedious at times, but there are many lessons and good teachings that keep me propelling forward.

I think perhaps the most recent, and powerful, lesson that I've gotten out of these books is how life and being human is really just a game. That's my terminology, FYI. Of course, it's always easier said than done, but I have long felt that we humans take life way too seriously, myself being a huge offender. There is so much more that we can do as human and as spiritual beings, but we don't even know it because we allow ourselves to get so bogged down with "life" - which to me is really social pressures.

I believe that if we can realize and accept that we are capable of powers beyond what our human mind limits us to have, then that power will naturally begin to unfold. But, if we continue to think that we are only capable or worthy of so much, or of a certain limit, then that is where we will continue to dwell.

I like this quote from one of the books: "Look at the magnificence of possibility in an individual. And then look at what they are, and you locate their pain, their tragedies, their incompleteness. This creates a space between what is and what could be. It is in the void that enlightenment exists. It is from here that we all come and must again return."

Not allowing my mind to limit myself will be a lifelong journey.

Love,
Aislinn