Perhaps the biggest change we are encountering in this point in time, is the change from a structured life into a flowing life. A life in which we move with the events that are happening in our lives.
A life in which we choose our direction, and adjust if necessary, and so a life in which we let go of the concept that we can only reach our goals through adhering to a plan that is set in concrete.
When we start flowing with Life itself, we may find that we need to adapt our thinking patterns. That we may have to find a new way of setting our goals and going about reaching them…
If we would look at the Flow of Life as if it were a river, then we would flow with its stream. This may seem like we would not have the same range of choices that we have always had anymore — or even like we might lose (a part of) our identity. Because isn’t all the water in the river the same?
No. Not all the water in the river is the same.
As Rumi has said long ago: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” And this means that — while all aspects of the ocean are within us — we choose which aspects of the ocean we express in our lives…
In the river this means small vortexes can form, and the water can stream faster in some parts, while in other parts the water’s surface is seemingly an unmoving mirror.
All in the same river…
In our lives this means that some things may not work for us anymore. For instance, something like “keeping things under control” has become a lot harder for us to do. At the same time, taking responsibility for ourselves in all aspects of our lives has become a lot more important.
Following the concrete steps in our plan may take an extreme amount of focus and energy — while setting our goals as intentions can give us energy. Of course the intention in itself is not enough. Yet where we used to have defined steps planned out to reach our goals, in this new energy we focus on our intended goal and take a step in its direction. If the Flow of Life starts to bring us closer to reaching our goal, then we take another step in that direction — if not, we change directions. Yet our goal (almost always) stays the same…
Another “side effect” of living in the Flow of Life is that as we are learning to choose our directions and reach our goals, it becomes harder to “swim against the current”. It becomes more and more difficult to split the stream, to canalize it, and ultimately have both streams work against each other…
Life itself flows in a manner and direction that is good, and therefore it has no reason to fight itself.
And of course the Flow of Life is not just one big stream. There will always be smaller rivers, creeks, and brooks. And while the ocean is always there, there will also be the lakes, the lochs, the inlets and the fjords…
The Flow of Life is diverse.
The Flow of Life ultimately finds its way toward wholeness, toward oneness.
