I wonder at life’s myriad opportunities to keep learning – from others’ stories, from friends and family, from our own experimental, risk-taking steps. What prompts us to move beyond ourselves: that glob of preconceptions and messages from the “outside” that we either accept or not? Something pure – the bedrock of who we truly are, that cannot be changed no matter how terrible or traumatic (whether torture drop-by-drop from a critical parent, spouse, or boss nor by one horrendous accident of time or nature) – the deep, authentic soul of us cannot be touched.
We can, at any time, align with the true self. This is a lesson I am learning for myself and it is a good practice to occupy my days and nights. What I understand is that by plumbing my real feelings, observing the thought streams and how I respond to things and people around me, I come to truly know that deep self.
Most of us engage in this kind of self-awareness at some point in our lives because it is impossible to live well without the essential knowledge of oneself and a life in accord. Like me, you may have many interludes over your life during which you plumb deeper and reconsider how its going…this Earth Walk.
Albert Schweitzer, a man whose life has been a compass for my own, said this about a person who achieves respect for life: “We come to understand that this life is a precious thing and that to develop it to its fullest is the work of the conscious [person].” ~ Out of My Life and Thought (Henry Holt & Co. 1939)
Susan Feathers 
I would have to say this is an excellent piece of work. I say this deserves mentioning elsewhere. Would you mind if I placed a link on my site to this post?
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Thank you, Santos. Please do link t it.
~Susan
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