A very creative, heartfelt and inspiring narrative. Didactic and beautifully laid out. Thank you Open. I find your writing inspires me to reflect and feel my reflections. This one invites me to reflect on the nature of ‘the road less travelled’…

The path less travelled is the path of discovering the Truth of our being and the Truth of the inter-beingness of everything : “the journey of purpose, to the realisation of who you truly are”. And what everything is. I feel the road less travelled is both inner and outer and there comes a time when one recognises this clearly because no matter how much you try to control, it simply doesn’t work. “There’ll come a point, where you stop seeing the outer obstacle as something you got to fix, get past or get over”.

The path less travelled is a coming back to life then, a life that is difficult – and although not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be explored - in truly accepting that life is difficult, it no longer matters. Then there is surrender. Surrender to life as it is. Surrender to “the pain inside of you where the light gets buried in the blurred haziness of uncertainty”. And then this one got me giggling:
“Instead you'll look right into the jaws of it and say: "Fuck it, I've had enough now, the pain can't define me anymore, I'm going right into the heart of it." And so you look right into it's contracting jaws and say "No more! I will not be defined by you, I will unfold and unwind right through you...you son-of-a-bitch!"

I thought wow! The energy in this!

And walking that road with commitment, surrender, openness and trust that a more expanded, connected and free beingness is here right now to be experienced, for us to return to…to return to what is already here waiting to arise.

What does it mean to take that step on the path, that step we are afraid to take? What is that step? It is our own unique step towards expanding into our beingness that is co-emerging with all animal, plant and mineral life. A step towards a full remembering of our soulfulness… which is “a way of living and connecting with life in total harmony, on outstretched wings, supported by the uplifting wind of the universe”. Perfect!

And...that step starts close in…

Start Close In - narrated by David Whyte here, mesmerising!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=030YqrN4SFc

Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first thing close in,
the step you don't want to take.
Start with the ground you know,
the pale ground beneath your feet,
your own way of starting the conversation.
Start with your own question,
give up on other people's questions,
don't let them smother something simple.
To find another's voice follow your own voice,
wait until that voice becomes a private ear
listening to another. Start right now
take a small step you can call your own
don't follow someone else's heroics,
be humble and focused, start close in,
don't mistake that other for your own.
Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first thing close in,
the step you don't want to take.

Much love