From The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo:
Every year, around the scalp of the planet, the caribou run the same path of migration along the edge of the Arctic Circle. They are born with some innate sense that calls them to this path. And every year, along the way, packs of coyote wait to feed on the caribou. And every year, despite the danger, the caribou return and make their way.
Often nature makes difficult things very clear. What feels like confusion is frequently our human refusal to see things for what they are. What lesson do the caribou shout to us with the thunder of their hooves as they deepen the crown of the planet? They are evidence, even as we speak, of the fact that in every living thing there is an inner necessity that outweighs all consequences. For the caribou it is clear what it is.
For spirits carried in human form, it is a blessing and a curse that we don’t always know our calling. Part of our migration is the finding out. What is it we are called to, beneath all formal ambition? The caribou tell us that, though there are risks and dangers that wait in the world, we truly have no choice but to live out what we are born with, to find and work our path.
These elegant animals bespeak a force deeper than courage, and, though some would call the caribou stupid, the mystery of the migration reveals to us the quiet, irrepressible emergence of living over hiding, of being over thinking, of participating over observing, of thriving over surviving…
Sit quietly and ask yourself what you are called to. …
What are you called to?
We truly have no choice but to live out what we are born with… to find and work our path…
the irrepressible emergence of living over hiding …
of being over thinking …
of participating over observing …
of thriving over surviving …
We can only hide for awhile … We can only sleep for awhile …
When it’s time, we will act because we have to … This is nature’s way… universal design …
Read something that inspires you every day.
Blessings, grace, and much love always. – Anne
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