Yesterday I said, "Do what you enjoy!" and "Follow the energy!" I nuanced those statements with the notion that this kind of advice works well when we are in a harmonious state, when we are not self-centred but turned out in care for others.
What is the implication of caring for others? The implication is that we attend to the context of our decision making. For me this means constantly broadening my horizons, overcoming the confines of my group, my social location. Yes I am concerned about the people and issues of the West Hill of Belleville. Yes I am concerned with the people and issues of Prince Edward-Hastings county. Yes I am concerned about Ontario and Canada. Thanks to the International Support Worker, Loyalist College, immersion program in Mexico, I care more about the fuller extent of the environment, the issues and the peoples of the Americas.
I am more alive and feel more alive the more I understand and respond to the people and to what is happening in my expanding context. As I am transformed so there is a greater possibility that those around me will likewise be transformed. As my friends grow spiritually so my possibilities for growth are enhanced. As I see it, spiritual growth is about liberating, unleashing, releasing in each one of us the vector of energy that can flow through us. This is the energy of wonder, of curiousity, of desire to know, of desire to live to our full potential, to create and to contribute.
The energy I talk of was felt in the Lacandon tropical rain forest. It brims over in the play of children, the commitment of lovers, the discipline and creativity of artists and scientists, the practical accomplishments of business people, managers and politicians.
We grow spiritually when we wrestle each day with the pressures that attempt to inhibit that energy/spirit and close us in to narrow prejudices and fears. It is a struggle that is won in the struggle itself.
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