confusion

Well-starting with knowing that you are confused helps… some folks wander and they only do what others want of them… they are shape shifter types who never really ask themselves what they want…

I think we grow through exploring and knowing what we want comes through time and experience…

It's pretty usual for explorer types to sometimes change course… that's half the fun!!!

Blessings
Katrina

Dis moeilik om te weet.  Van kleintyd af wou ek net reis.  Na 'n halwe leeftyd se reis wil ek net huistoe kom, en wie weet of dit ooit sal gebeur.  Leef in die oomblik, waardeer en geniet wat jy het, leef voluit wat ookal jou omstandighede…

Groete en liefde,
Olyfie

Sometimes I think it's better to make a choice and learn from the response rather than not make the choice and wonder what if?…

On the other hand, maybe learning to enjoy indecision could be an interesting task.

I'm not sure…   it's a toughie :)

Whatever you decide I hope you enjoy it.

Oh yes, such a big question!

I suspect there is no answer - or that it is in fact another question that wants to be asked, or perhaps it wants to be asked  from another 'place' - somewhere deep in your heart and belly, or from your innermost being.

I've just finished reading Clarissa Pinkola Estes intro to the commemorative edition of Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. It's wonderful. She talks at length about the hero/heroine's journey, and indeed she titles her introducton  “What Does the Soul Want?”. I highly recommend it.

The main thing I got - with reference to your blog - is that there is only one place to start answering that question, and that is from exactly where you are. So whatever choice you make, that is the 'right' one.

Perhaps we can't know this from our small 'I', but from the larger “eye” - all is revealed, all is clear, and there are no mistakes along the journey.

” “Ought I go where I am called? or not?”  The definitive guidance is this:

Whosoever desires to explore The Way –
Let them set out – for what more is there to say?” ”

The poem above was written in the eleventh century  by Sufi mystic Farid ad-Dub Attar in his poem the Conference of the Birds.

Estés goes on to write:

“If one is looking for life, one must go to the eternal life-giver – and/or the eternal death-dealer – in order to find the needed understandings to wrest free the answer to the riddle, all in order to anser the question most dear to one's soul - the one used to motivate and locomote true consciousness. Thereby, whatever adventures, misfortunes, detours, and gratifications occure along the road – all are seen as moving the self toward learning and transformation.”

Good luck on the journey dear Jodi, and know that you are not alone!

with love,
Sandra