Each of us has our own personal journey in which we are the absolute protagonist; that is, if we have the courage to look inside ourselves, and take responsibility for the good and evil we find there.
This is not possible if we stay inside ourselves because of fear or because we search for power and success- taking on predestined roles, following the official rules and trying to avoid suffering.
The path to follow goes through body, mind and spirit. It uses our imagination and creativity more than logic and reason. It doesn’t claim to always understand and control everything but rather honors the mystery.
One who follows this path knows she belongs to something greater.
The true search for the profound reason for our being on this earth usually beings when we feel like we are about to die psychologically.
When we are tired of the life we lead, when we feel like we are about to lose everything we struggled for.
When we lose the people we love.
When the people we loved leave us.
When we realize that we got it all wrong.
When we understand that the life we lead doesn’t make sense.
The journey has its beginning in the story of each life, in the places where we have learned to survive, to see black and white, good and evil.
It can be an abandonment, a rejection, a disappointment over failure or a sickness that causes us to fall.
Our journey will continue or it will stop, depending on the way which we live the fall. If we identify ourselves with the fall, we stop there. If on the contrary we live it as an opportunity to understand that we are part of a journey, of something bigger than us, then we will go forward on the journey.
And so the fall is necessary.
Western society is dying because it seeks to avoid the fall; because it doesn’t teach us how to fall.