HAVEN'T WE BEEN HERE BEFORE?
SORRY, BUT YOUR BEST LIFE WILL LEAVE YOU WALKING IN CIRCLES.
There comes a point in time when we can only go in circles. We often fear circles. They represent monotony. And if our lives are not happy, they represent repeating the same misery. I talk about this thing of our 3 levels of being. Our lower self, our middle self, and our higher self. These each have their circles. Circles create a gravity, an ecosystem which allows them to sustain themselves. So we can mentally be dealing with our lower self. At any time we can be dealing that and it may be a short passing annoyance or a frustrating battle. We are not necessarily walking in a circle with that self. When we are living life dictated by our lower self, yes we have a circle we are in.
Evolution is only empowered when we can step into higher circles and stay in the realm of those circles. We can think higher. Do some things that represent our better self. But we will always slip back until our life has an ecosystem that supports whatever self we are evolving into. This does not come through fear not denial. It is an organic growth. We are done. Have to move upward and we are willing to take what is required to be in our new circle. Often a new circle of friends. Our highest self requires a circle and this may be our most non-negotiable circle. Why? Because our great joy and wisdom cannot compromise its wisdom. Yes, we compromise. That is not the point. All circles have humility and compromise baked in. Perhaps it is our lowest self that foolishly rebels against compromise most only to find life holding us down. Our highest self knows wise compromise. It also knows the preciousness of life and energy and it creates circles that honor that understanding. We cannot leave the world behind, but we can leave our ignorance and unnecessary vulnerability behind.
This is one of the great faults of people seeking to evolve. The idea that they are done with a given thing. Someone can cause us great anger or sadness. Or perhaps a traumatic past has given us great pain. We can be done with certain people and events, but are we ver done with sadness, anger, or pain? Never. We can evolve beyond a place that leaves us at the mercy of such things, but we will see them again. If not in our selves then in others. To evolve is to be okay returning to experiences. Even low ones. It is all in how we deal with them that define us, and the circles we create and maintain that allow us to deal with things from the wisest of us.
So, let’s say that we have found the height of our personal human experience and we have found the low, even though we often don’t know, but let’s say we have. The currents of life push us around and there is only us, going in circles, perhaps circles of different sizes, different diameters of highs and lows, but circles none the less. In this, we must see all phases as old friends. We must know their methods not out of fear or resentment. We surrender to them for what they are in order to embrace our wisdom and evolve. The circles and places we pass in those circles do not have to be our master even if they should feel like our cages. Indeed the circle of life itself is our ultimate master. That we will always need to listen to.These are the phases of age and maturing we often ignore. And our necessary rites of passage.
The nature of life going in circles is that we revisit things. sometimes in us and sometimes in others. This process allows us to master our relation to certain events, and strengthen our relationship with others that perhaps we have a weakness to. In the secondary case this is not always a lone venture. Often we fail because we take the world on our shoulders. Our greatest inner challenges must often be faced alone. But those on the outside often need our wisdom and humility in accepting the help of others. Yes, there are many many things, most perhaps, that we must address internally, but part of the wisdom of that process is knowing when to engage with others when that process tells us to do so. The end game of wisdom is never a solo show of life dominance. it is an act of wisely listening and engaging.
There is a point when most everything becomes familiar. We must resist the temptation to complicate things out of boredom or fear of the familiar, but rather address such issues with energy that is uncomplicated and obedient. We must create and bring energy that reveals the joy in the familiar which is all about what we bring. Not everyone is so easily bored. some are more than others. Those of us with active imaginations must be tamed, honed and focused. the world doesn’t care for dreamers. It is always asking us what are we doing? And it is perfectly okay to say, I am just walking in circles.