Lesson One
As we have moved along in what we call life, our growth has been delivered in the form of thought and feeling. At first, without words, we felt and reacted. Then gradually with the maturing of our bodies and vocal chords we learned to make sounds……gooo goooo gaaaa ahhhh mmmmmm and eventually ma ma ma
Once these words were repeated enough, they become part of our bodies and our sense of feeling the world move in response to us. Lying in our mothers we had no words. Outside our mothers, without their very direct intervention, we developed sounds to reconnect with them. MA!!! ma ma mmmmmm delicious.
From there we have added countless sounds and meanings which our bodies house and store for our use as live beings.
Why are you here? What is your life purpose? If you ask this question you return to the wordless state of creation, the unformed impulse to be, and with enough stillness, room for our purpose to emerge in words.
My motive is loving, and what does that mean in this moment? To find out I choose to be aware of my body and how it feels. This goal of bodily awareness is wordless AND also describable. A combination of the two becomes how most people relate to each other, with feelings and thinking.
What am I feeling now?
How am I going to share that information?
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This article was previously published on thefatherconnection
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