Which Story Are You In?

Elise Macdonald

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The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings

Jung

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It’s funny, I don’t seem to respond so much when people make moral exhortations about what should happen in the world…

But what I find is strange is how deeply I am responding to some of the people who are using an erotic language towards the world. This language that quite a few people are starting to use. When someone starts speaking about how they became entangled in the cosmos or entered into the mysteries. Sometimes I think the soul responds most to its desires, and it needs its erotic attachments to the world, and its deep pleasures.

I seem to be responding more to this opening up to the world. To a voluptuous and deep language about the experience of the world. And to the strange couplings between the human and the sacred.

~ Jon Wilson

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Our job is not to comprehend or control everything, but to learn which story we are in and which of the many things calling out in the world is calling to us. Our job is to be fully alive in the life we have, to pick up the invisible thread of our own story where it leads.

The point in this life is not to simply become somebody, but to become who we…