InnerJourney.com

The Most Rewarding Journey of All...

InnerJourney.com is dedicated to assisting individuals who are looking for tools, methods, techniques and information to support perhaps the most challenging yet rewarding journey of all: The journey to the world within - the InnerJourney...

Music, dance, meditation, journaling, visualization, energy work, spiritual readings and nature. These are just some of the avenues that can lead to a deeper insight into Self. Meeting the Self can be simultaneously exciting and terrifying. Moving through the layers to reach the place where the yearnings reside, where the deepest sense of spirit may be felt. To experience an awareness of the nameless, wordless Transcendent energy that informs all life - this destination can be particularly elusive yet ever so important. For this is where the life force may be found, the life force that brings forth the splendor, the sorrow and the rapture of being alive.

Perhaps life has more to do with living, to the fullest, the potentiality of the human spirit. It is the experience of life that matters. This experience depends on the conscious awareness of the ebb and flow of energies within, of the conflicts that inevitably arise when making a decision, of the emotions interpreted by the mind as feelings that inform one of the present state of being. Allowing oneself the priviledge of the expression of inner yearnings may be the most fundamamental aspect of being alive. One example is the child screaming with glee just for the sheer joy of being alive. Letting that life force find expression, come into being - becoming - the joy of becoming...

Being alive is to feel both joy and sorrow. Suffering evokes the compassion of the human heart. Whether anyone intended it this way is not important - this is the way it is. And to participate in this life the way it is - aware of and in harmony with the dualities, the conflicts, the necessity to consume other life forms in order to live - without judgement, is a prerequisite to being fully alive. "Joyful participation in the sorrow of the world" as Joseph Campbell has phrased it; this is one measure of maturity that is not confined to the bounds of any one wisdom tradition. Attaining mature status is an inside job, and at times a solitary one.

Finding the way is a unique challenge for each individual - the path is there, waiting. The journey requires courage, stamina and faith - in oneself and ultimately with the assurance that the Universe will respond to whatever intentions are offered. Being aware that this phenomena operates without reference to the nature of the intentions reminds us to be selective in what we choose to dwell on, to intend, conscious or otherwise, through our thoughts. Doors will open as needed, the teachers and helpers and guides will appear when needed. Many people over the centuries and across cultures have depended on this phenomenon with great results - they were able to live their own life acting out of their own center.

When God greeted Thomas in heaven, he did not ask "'Why were you not like Moses?"
but rather "Why were you not Thomas?"

Let not this life pass without bringing forth the song that lives deep within,
for the ears of others and especially those of the 'composer'.

Be.
Be well.
Be before you do...

Live.
Live well.
Live the fire within...

It has been said that the only people really afraid of dying are those that have not yet lived.

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