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WHO AM I?

This is an arduous time for many of us.  Arduous, or “tough” times mean you are being challenged and tested by life.

How much "grit" do you have? Grit is comprised of determination, willingness to withstand the pain. To call forth determination or courage means that you are willing to sacrifice for your goal.

The times have called forth significant challenges.

Those have been added to your personal challenges which you have faced hanging on to the big goals you had before the pandemic.

That means you have had to rise to all these challenges by growing, learning, and gaining experiences. This oh-so-difficult time has meant you have had to work perhaps the hardest in your life.

Is it any comfort to know that the harder you have worked, the greater the capacities you developed? The more exceptional capabilities you have earned so that in the future you will be able to accomplish and achieve even more than before things became so arduous.

That means your life may become more abundant. The more abundant your outer life becomes, the more inner strength you have.

    

WHY AM I HERE?

The challenges we receive lead us to the fate we have for our life. That fate and those experiences are directed by the Star your Spirit-Self has chosen to follow.

Is it you who is finding your fate, or is your fate finding you?

Is it your Star that you are following? Or, is the Star leading you, drawing you forward into the future you know nothing about?

As you move forward on your path, you may begin to realize that we must have challenges, a path, fate, and a Star; otherwise, our struggles seem random and meaningless.

 

WHAT DO I WANT?

What is the gift your Spirit-Self wishes to receive? What is the source of all this?

Who is the Giver?

 

As the Rudolf Steiner verse reads:

 

“I feel my star,

My star finds me,

I feel my fate,

My fate finds me.

 

My life and the wide world are one.

 

Life grows more abundant for me.

Life grows more radiant within me.

Life grows more arduous for me.”

 

     This is a time of testing.

     Why in the world would anyone want their lives to be more Arduous?

 

Taken from the collection of short essays:

Th3 Simple Questions: Slice Open Everyday Life

© Copyright 2015, Jean W. Yeager

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NIGHT SELF

WHO AM I?

     The Day Self is the ash of the flame which lights the Night – the ash of YOUR flame as you unfold. Your Night Self is the invisible Night Flame which is the inner fire in the soul, the sense of Self which you dimly see fluttering just out of sight on rare occasions, the power you weep to unfurl in the day.

     What is this shallow sense of space allotted to the Day Self formed by anyway? What’s left over for you by somebody else? Not in the Night. No second best for the Night Self. What is the sense of space your TRUE Self would fill? Are you a far bigger being than life during the day allows you to be? Sit here. Stand there. Things are larger by moonlight and shadow, you feel free of the body.

     The Night Self is the one who makes the important decisions for the Day Self. The Night Self is the one who selects the places the Day Self takes you. This is because the Day Self is limited by logic which is limited by your senses and daylight which only reveals things thought,  dead ideas, the known. The Night Self is guided by the living, the unseen future, stars.

WHY AM I HERE?

     You go by feel into the night. Shut down your senses, your petty judgments, your indecision. Go beyond your skin. Go by feel. By smell. Be guided by the taste of the others. Soft. Slick. Intimate. Unexpected. Not body bound, soul able to penetrate another soul.

You’re not alone. You’re never alone. The beds are not empty. The doors are unlocked. There are no keys. You’re not land-locked. Some of us sit around the table, drinking the elixirs and watch the Night Flames unfurl. The boat is rocking at anchor. People are murmuring softly. Who will ferry whom to the Spirit Land?

     We go by non-sense into the Night. Nonsense. Do not over-think the Night. You will be wrong because it’s nonsense.

The feeling of readiness. Anticipation for the unknown. The vitality of the night bubbles into your soul. The fear of the unknown, then unseen, the three Strange Angels need to be welcomed – they bear gifts.

WHAT DO I WANT?

     Sleep is the little death. The little death which readies us for the Big Death. Each of your night’s little death’s is made up of each night’s life:  the intimacies, the penetrating others, the unfolding. Each is a moment, a thread which will be woven together with last night and the night before and the one before.

Your Night Self is the Keeper of the Loom and will take up all your nights and weave them into your garment of destiny, it’s Self.

     Starting at the instant of your death, and for three days following, the Night Self will gather it’s Self it will ignite it’s Self into a bonfire - an unfurling final Night Flame arising into the sky. A star? Your path Home?

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