All of us have two perspectives on life seemingly available to us: one provided by society, friends, parents, the media and one directly available to our senses, mind and spirit.
Typically, the latter has little in common with the former. We imagine a world full of adventure, love and passion, of possibilities quickly disparaged by the crushing weight of others’ opinions.
Yet if life is to be about anything at all, how can we do otherwise than privilege that first person perspective – in all its anarchic, iconoclastic glory? Surely it is the only guide to living which has authority – however dissonant its voice may be.
When we ignore this inner voice in favor of all sorts of random ideas we have got from society or who knows where, which we take for truth, we turn them into our own truth: although at the outset they were only the truth of those who chose to believe them, and an absolute lie from the perspective of anyone who has ever lived an authentic life.
Life is utterly unexpected, unimaginable, nothing can prepare us for it and only the alignment with spirit allows us to navigate it in the moment for our own well being and that of those around us. Because it just doesn’t compute otherwise, it doesn’t have any rules, and least of all the rules that we are all told to believe in by others. The idea that we can accurately predict the results of our life choices is preposterous hubris: it only becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when we manifest those consequences into being by belief in the lie of powerlessness. Otherwise, there are certainly too many variables and unknowns for us reasonably to hold a view on the subject. We either act from inner conviction, or we are paralyzed, at best able to haul ourselves onto the conveyor belt that leads all of us, via mediocrity, to the grave.
I invite all of you to live life from the only perspective that has legitimacy and authority in your life – that of your soul’s purpose known inwardly to you, and to you only. Everything else is pointless illusion.