WHAT YOUR LIFE ASKS OF YOU

“How are you tending to the emerging story of your life?”

~ Carol Hegedus

Like many of us, I seem to be continually challenged not to hide who I am. Over an dover, I keep finding myself in situations that require me to be all of who I am in order to make my way through.

Whether breaking a pattern of imbalance with a lifelong friend, or admitting my impatience to listen to my lover, or owning my envy of a colleague, or even confronting the self-centeredness of strangers stealing parking spaces, I find I must be present - even if I say nothing. I find I must not suppress my full nature, or my life doesn’t emerge.

Aside from the feeling of integrity or satisfaction that comes over me when I can fully be myself, I am finding that being who I am - not hiding any of myself - is a necessary threshold that I must meet or my life will not evolve. It is a doorway I must make my way to or nothing happens. My life just stalls.

Tending our stories means that our lies must open if we are to live in the mystery; our ways of hiding, no matter how subtle, must relax open if we are to be.

~ Center yourself and meditate on the emerging story of your life.

~ Breathe slowly and consider what your life asks of you so that it can emerge.

~ Breathe fully and consider how you can better meet this inner requirement.

The Book of Awakening

~ Mark Nepo