When I was in high school, I had lots of posters hanging on my bedroom wall – it was the thing in the 70's!
My favorite had a picture of road running into the horizon at sunset with the Lao Tzu saying, "Life is a journey, not a destination." A concept that I have kept with me ever since.
With good reason, journey is a metaphor used for the flow of life.
Essential nature longs for direction within the exploration of life.
I long to know, to grasp the illusive understanding which unlocks my hearts and sings my truth.
Journey provides direction and a method for following direction.
Going out into the unknown, you allow the path of the journey's road to guide your exploration, your search.
Frustratingly, journey is not without bumps and detours along the way.
Turning left when I mean right, or losing my way, or getting stuck in an endless traffic circle with seemingly no exit or progressing direction.
Along the way, you begin to realize that the journey's direction is not in where you thought you were going.
Instead you learn that the journey is in the experience along the way and not, as Lao Tzu points out, in the destination.
In the spiritual journey, I ask myself to explore the deeper aspects of body, mind, heart and soul.
I look around for signs that I am on the right path or that I am walking or exploring properly.
And there are certainly many places to get advice, guidance or rules about how, when and where to proceed.
But there is no one right way.
We each have our own paths.
Within, we each have our own unique journeys.
And we are responsible for the choices we make in our explorations.
Your life is your journey.
Yet, we each seek along the same core of essential understanding.
Each journey travels the mountain of truth, of divine understanding.
Each journey strives to find self-truth in the successive mountain climbs you make as you live your life seeking essential clarity of our paths.
Not one path, many. Not many mountains, one.
About the Book
How to Navigate the Five Steps of Your Spiritual Journey offers a practical and compassionate guide to understanding the repeating rhythm of your spiritual growth. Through clear explanations, reflection practices, and gentle insights, this book helps you recognize where you are on your journey and how to move forward with awareness, intention, and trust in your connection with Spirit.
