Unfold Your Wings and Watch Life Take Off

Part 1 - Your Calling

Your Calling Will Help You Know

There is transcendent reality to which we all belong. This reality is hidden, but it can be known. We are shielded from this reality by a veil of worries, fears, anxieties and preoccupations. This reality is not something that can be understood by the machinations of the mind. It is something we know when we are gliding through life, magically merging movement with stillness.

I find this inner stillness by expressing love. I need to love more and more people and love them more and more intensely. This is what I am guided to do. Loving others intensely, anticipating their needs and offering myself in their service, shrinks my troublesome ego with all its worries and anxieties, opening up the vast, still space within. Once we can carry that still inner space into every situation, no matter how fraught or troubled, then we find that inner space is the doorway to knowing transcendent reality, where everything is meaningful, everything is purposeful and where we realise life is just as it needs to be.

Nature, with its perfect expression of need and response, reflects that reality. Unfortunately we are blind to the beauty around us because our minds are so confused, stressed and filled with fear.

I remember leaving a large Do It Yourself Store in South Belfast late one autumn. As I came out of the main doors and looked across the car park, my heart responded to a magnificent sight. The whole sky was lit up with the most spectacular pinks, reds and purples. A beautiful orange sun was setting on the horizon. I was awestruck. My heart filled with glorious presence.

I looked around at the other people leaving the store, to share this vision of wonder. I stood at that doorway in amazement for five minutes. Of all the people who passed by, it seemed to me that no one noticed that magnificent sight. As they walked urgently with head bowed out of the store, I could see their faces etched with an ever-present anxiety. When I was cycling home that evening I was full of mixed emotions – great love for the beauty I had just seen and great sadness for the state of humanity.

By loving more we are gradually healed of our fears. Our mind becomes simpler and simpler. We lose the need to rationalize and put words to everything. Then we see the world differently. We enter the present and see the world as it really is. The truth is that we are already living in paradise. It is then that we realize that the exquisite beauty of nature reflects transcendent reality, not as an idea in our head, but directly with tears running down our cheeks.

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How can I know?

By listening to the call.
By listening to the call I learn to love more and more.
By loving more I lose my fear.
By losing my fear I begin to relax.
By relaxing completely I live in the present.
By living in the present I know.