“We’re all just walking each other home”
- Ram Dass
The road forward isn’t straight. Nor is it easy. Or logical.
One thing you can rely on is it’s going to be a ride, whether you like it or not.
Over the last ten years, the theme of my life could be best described as peeling back layers of an onion. Not a regular onion, more like onion with a neverending parade clowns step out until it all starts to get silly. For every peel wedged off, and for all the effort that takes, you realise there’s more in total than you realised.
As each layer has come down, I’ve learned something profound about the meaning of my life, of many lives, and all of the ways it can be approached. Each time I’ve realised new aspects of myself (that have always been there), shed old beliefs, and let go of multitides of perceived identities.
Through the process, not much has stayed bolted down, except one thing. A common theme:
Purpose becomes clearer, and clearer, and clearer some more.
As past lives fall into the review mirror, taking baggage of the ego’s ultimate desires of their times: get friends, get clothes, look normal, get money, get possessions, obtain status, get power.
Over time, when you do the inner work and pursue the truth of your life, you start to see what’s in the middle of the onion.
After all of the personal striving, the wanting to be and do and have, you find something quite peculiar:
It’s not going to be about you.