When we stop to think...who are we.

[Jennifer Taylor]

Why it is that when asked who we are, we are typically stumped? When our first impression is to ask our friend to help describe the person we really are... Who is it that we see when we look in the mirror? There are many days that I barely looked at myself other then when I am brushing my teeth. When did we get so busy that we have left ourselves behind? Now, there are days that I say that I am so busy that I feel like a 'chicken with my head cut off'. Is it possible that that statement is true...that my body has gotten so caught up in routine that I have not even taken a moment to be with the most important person in my life...me? It is like waking up from a deep sleep...I need time to catch up on all the things that I have missed.
That was how I use to feel on a daily basis. There are days that I find myself getting close to slipping back into those routines and habits, but today it is a lot less frequent. A few years back, a friend and I embarked on a path that so few ever go or so few will ever go in this life time. My friend and I listened to the sound of the wind that called us from spirit. It was time to heed our ultimate calling, as Wayne Dyer says it. We took a sabbatical and found the people that we had been looking for in all the wrong places...ourselves. The chapters of my life since then has had many ups and downs and interesting twists of the pages “…when you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. And let your best be for your friend. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.” (-Kahlil Gibran)
What I had discovered about myself was that I am not a person having a moment of spiritual experience; I am actually a spiritual being have a moment of human experience. My past does not define me. There is no reason to have shame, guilt, or embarrassment about the past. Those things are simply a chapter in a book that is finished. Those experiences don't define the person that I am; they merely tell a story about where I have been. “We wonderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset let us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered. Brief were my days among you, and briefer still the words I have spoken. But should my voice fade in your ears, and my love vanish in your memory, then I will come again, And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak.” (-Kahlil Gibran)
Many blessings and prayers of safe passage on the journey of self discovery…may you be blessed I have been with a loving friend as a companion, remembering that we are never separate from each other no matter the distance.

[Just Me]

Wow!

[CarlosV]

omg. this is thought provoking ... i've had to take a good, hard look at myself at different times in the past and i find that it is extremely difficult to recognize yourself as yourself. consider that we get to a point where the daily routines, activities, and social interactions become so embedded into our reality that we begin to believe that we are who we are based on what we do all day. In effect, we begin to define and identify ourselves based on our routines, activities and social interactions. The salesman might says, "I sell things, i'm a salesman". The computer guy might says, "I'm a fix computers, I'm a computer tech".

But what does that have to do with who we really are? What if, for the computer guy, the routine is really just a disguise and he's really a chef. The need to make a living and to find security in the things or skills/skill set that you know can often blind you to other possibilities. Your true path could lies in some other direction but could be shaded from you due to your perceived necessity to make a living or sense of security.

...i think your right. at some point you have to stop and take notice. at some point, if even for a moment, the routine has to be broken so that we can look at ourselves and recognize the inner voice and inner energies. it is absolutely amazing what can be found. More importantly, as you become more aware of yourself, the journey can become clearer - if not easier.

[Marianne Goldweber]

I want to say that if not for the unconditional love and support of Jen through a painful part of my story- I would not be as I am today.

This is the Village concept.

Each of us are a mirror- of love and supoort and through watching and helping we come to learn tings about ourselves. These struggles make us confident that were are more- in our own life and in the lives of those who travel this journey with us..
Having others in our life who are Authentic- compassionate suportive and loving we find the courage to change what is familiar and dare to Become......

You Carlos are evolving- dare to Be- to Become!!