One of the many benefits of hosting The Humble Warrior Podcast is we interview and meet some very amazing people who are making our world a better place. One thing I’ve noticed is when I ask our guests to define their spirituality is I always get a different answer. However, as we get deeper in the conversation it always comes back to what that person believes in their soul, their inner being.
To break this into a simple understanding – we are all spiritual beings. For the one who asks the question Who am I? This is when one may begin the quest of finding him or herself. To break this down again is to ask ourselves what is our purpose? How can I serve? This is what can make it complicated, so let’s make it simple. We are the Purpose!
Our life experiences pave the way for us to serve. Every guest we have had on the podcast has shared their experience or experiences that put them in a place to serve others. When we can get to that place of not thinking of ourselves and shift the thinking to others is the breakthrough that I have been looking for myself. How can I serve?
It’s breaking down my life. What I like, what I don’t like. How can I be my best self? To myself, to my family, to all. It’s having the patience to have that breakthrough and having the right tools in place in order for that to happen. To have the inner knowing or awareness that life is a path. I’ll end with this writing that I used before in one of my first blogs: The Path With A Heart
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity, you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it, if that is what your heart tells you to do. But, your decision to keep on the path or leave it must be free of fear or ambition.
Don’t like ads? Become a supporter and enjoy The Good Men Project ad freeI warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone, one question. The question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand. Now I do understand it. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same; they lead nowhere. In my own life, I could say I traversed long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor’s question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Both paths lead nowhere but one has heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey, as long as you follow it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong, the other weakens you.
The trouble is nobody asks the question and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point, few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path.
A path without heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard to even take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.
For me there is only the traversing of paths of heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.
And there I travel looking…….looking breathlessly.
– A Yaqui Warrior
You Are The Purpose. Follow Your Heart.
God Speaks Through The Heart. This is how I define my spirituality- Following my Heart. Pretty simple.
Live Brave,
Chris
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