Be True, Be real

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

― Goethe

A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth. — Marion Woodman

We are held up by forces we don’t see or understand. Maybe it’s our own instincts and intuition that can read the patterns in the infinite. Maybe it’s forces that have always held us in an intelligent embrace since birth. We can only guess. We can only study how to align ourselves with the inscrutable laws of the cosmos we belong to. Intangibles seem to rule the tangible world. It’s a mystery.

Getting straight with the grand order of life implies getting straight with our truest nature. It implies sloughing off some of the imposed strictures of whatever culture we were born into. It means learning to live our mission as our core being dictates. It may mean “finding our passion,” whatever that means to you.

We have few guides to our inner truth, we have few strategies and methods from society. We have to rely on ourselves, on trial and error, mistakes and bad judgement, on hard lessons learned, on self reliance in spite of not knowing the future. It’s the human condition.