September 14, 2009
A Mysterious Summons (Quote of the Week)
Why is it that some of us are driven blindly, madly, and passionately to struggle to transcend our own limitations? And to do so not merely for our own sake but for the sake of a higher purpose that we feel yet can barely see? Why is it that in those precious moments when we are most conscious and most awake, we intuit a deeper sense of conscience and care that is not personal? What is that soft vibration that tugs on our hearts and beckons us to courageously leap beyond the small confines of our ego so that we will participate in the life process in a much deeper and more authentic way? In the way I understand it, this is the deepest and most profound manifestation of the evolutionary impulse itself—the very same energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process fourteen billion years ago. That energy and intelligence is now awakening to itself as the spiritual impulse, the mysterious compulsion towards consciousness that serious seekers feel stirring deep within their very own souls. Why is it that some of us who come from a completely secular background find ourselves compelled towards our own spiritual depths, seemingly out of the blue? For many it feels like Consciousness or Spirit is calling the Self to Itself, unprompted by external circumstances. And where does this mystical summons originate? It comes from the same fathomless source that the big bang came from!
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I am one of these people, though I really don’t know how well I do it – just driven to.
Just by the observation you are one who does, means you are aware, therefore, doing it well. Take care and do write me back if you can.
Bullion Grey
I was informed for the first time about “driven people” toward Light. I have a simple thing that posts a simple idea, being. Allowing the Youniverse to tap me and work with directions divined by meditation and art. I am an artist living in solitude most of the time. I am married but she is busy with her own trajectory. I doth protest not, accepting her right to proceed as she is directed, in her own way. I know our lives are many different worlds, typecast into one world that is illusion. So, I thought this writing diverse yet I and the author have differences.
with Love,
Bullion Grey
now into the Silence…..
We can as easily ask why do some people feel driven to commit crimes and do bad deeds? I think the main influence is parenting of kids from birth and then the role models kids adopt. At some point its peers who call the shots.
In my 40s, for some inexplicable reason, I became facinated with the idea of Enlightenment and became interested to experience becoming so. I’ve now disabused myself of becoming Enlightened, knowing now there are few, if no enlightened people, only the Enlightened moment or Moments which help us in progressing toward higher consciousness. Perhaps some attain Enlightenment or Buddhahood in their lifetime or lifetimes. But to be Awakened to the call to transcend consciousness’s limitations is somewhat of a choice, fostered by a desire to become Enlightened. It may begin as a desire and even an egoistic ambition but the Real Deal becomes more than that. I speak from experience. Sartre phrased: Condemned to freedom. That sounds negative but somewhat true when the commitment becomes involuntary.
Aloha to all summoned to The Call!
I am an artist, I feel driven to know higher consciousness. My quest originated with the desire to heal the wounds of childhood and the suffering , and the preoccupation with self, healing in the release and shining the light on shadow to find the truth of existence beyond this story of identification and the desire to be authentically alive.
Also its the knowledge as an artist that creation begins in the empty space between intention and action . Knowing that silence is a necessary space of creation.
I have felt very alone and , recently I began reaching out to communities like this.I want to participate in the awakening , and co creation in my life and art. thank you blessings “Om Tat Sat”
Hello, daria:
That you have sometimes felt alone is often natural to those on the path toward true Understanding that we are all connected, not only to the rest of humanity but to all of Creation. Your reaching out with your desire to help heal others is a step in the right direction. The more you are able to find service gratifying, the closer you will become awakened. What is important in your awakening is that sincere desire in your heart, the seeking you do in your artwork, and a sincerity to lead your life following your spiritual beliefs. I have stopped thinking of becoming personally Enlightened, but have experienced moments of Awakening which have resulted in this commmitment I now have to do the right thing as much as my consciousness and conscience dictate. Perhaps there is a full Enlightenment but I now feel that will perhpas be a point where my present life is completed.
Do you know the meaning of Aloha, the Hawaiian equivalent of Namaste? Aloha to you and best wishes in your spiritual progress!
Re: Spirituality, having a vison of life and the world, aesthetics, morality
Being a an artist with a spiritual Awakening, having a vision of life and the world I envision as “better, more beautiful”, I conduct my life to bring that vision about to actualtiy with the puny efforts I am enabled to make. Being a visionary should not mean only having visions that are seen only by one’s own self but if beautiful enough, should be considered worthwhile enough so as to be actualized with whatever it takes in whatever form that makes the most impact so others can share and hlep to support that effort.
I hope my footprint will leave behind a trail of beauty, a “better” more beautiful world for future generations to enjoy. This gives my work impetus to continue.
I’ve been having dreams and feelings about random things since childhood …and for the first time in my life, things are starting to make sense. I have a very powerful urge or “call” to assist in something ..although I don’t know WHAT.