THE WAY

   From time to time I lose my way. Maybe for a minute or two of doubt, or in the middle of the night, maybe for a while after an upsetting conversation, where shame or care-taking have kicked in. It always feels bad, like I can't remember who I am, lost in a drama, needing to work through my shit one more time, all over again. Humbled, humiliated, scared and all the rest of the feelings of a little child who has lost his way.
     These are actually the greatest opportunities, when you lose your way and have to find your way back to yourself. You get to deal with stuff that was there all along. You get to use all your experience and your training to recover yourself, and you are able to connect even more deeply to your presence, your essential self.
You work through the judgements, the identity attachments, the ego trip you were on without realizing it. You work through all kinds of feelings, from despair to rage, from confusion to fear. You remember to feel your breathing, and to center yourself in your body. You climb back into your heart and you feel the love in there, and you let the love expand to fill all the space around you with your light.
     You and I lose our way and then find our way back home again, over and over. That actually is the nature of the way. This process plays out collectively in governments and societies. The people of the earth, as guests of this planet, have lost their way. Let us commit collectively to finding our way again.