Our work-- what we pay the bills to do, not what we do to pay the bills-- is simple: Finding our life and living it. All of our nighttime dreams are about finding our life and living it. The theme running through them all is: "LOOK! THIS is what you are doing!!! Is THIS the best you can do??? Is THIS what you think you are here to do???" Our dreams are trying to wake us up, and guide us along the way. During the day, we try to shift the subject from what we need to be doing to anything other than what we need to be doing. Generally, our distracting thoughts take the form of sex/drugs/alcohol/money/ or some other alluring pastime. Anything to keep from thinking about finding our life and living it. But, the life we need to be living is always right there, winking at us, beckoning to us, hoping we will wake up and devote ourselves to incorporating The Elements of Real Life into our order of the day. Beginning with Emptiness, Stillness and Silence-- Which are threatening to us and we don't want to go there because that's where the truth breaks in. We are back we go to the Campbell quote: "That which you seek lies far back in the darkest corner of the cave you most don't want to enter." Emptiness, stillness and silence qualify. In addition to the First Three, the Second Three consist of integrity, sincerity, spontaneity. The First Two are our Essential Nature and our Innate Virtues. The Second Two are Balance and Harmony, which let us know how well we are doing in dancing with the contradictions and dichotomies --the Yin/Yang-- of our Life and our Other Life. Blending the Elements Of Life together and maintaining the right ratio is called "Finding Or Life And Living It." It is also called "Living On The Anchor-Rock Of Life And Being." Daily fare for Children of the Way.
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