Paths

[Mike Church]

Here is something I came across and it has had a profound effect on me. I thought I would share with all of you

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... . . . .Look at every path closely and deliberately, Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question , , , Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
from The Teaching of Don Juan by Carlos Castanedo

 

[Brayton]

These days I am truly wondering what a path with heart looks like.

This path I'm on seems pretty heartless in the way I stumble around and over its obstacles every day.

I used to think I knew what the word "betrayal" meant. It has been wholly redefined for me. Its intensity is nearly overwhelming.

For a long time (several years or more, depending on how I look at it) I have been looking everywhere but at the center of the source of the trouble I've been having.

It wasn't until my T told me in response to some pretty offhand comment I made that she wondered why I hadn't ever said much about "him."

So, when I find antoher path with heart, I want this time to make absolutely sure that it is "heart" that I am seeing, not some sham that temporarily passes for it.

Brett

 

[crisispoint]

Mike,

There is truth in this. It reminds me of the Robert Frost poem that ends with, "I chose to take the road less travelled/and that made all the difference."

May we all find our path with "heart."

Peace and love,

Scot