Our heroic journey!

I believe and have the conviction that humans are going through an amazing time on our beautiful planet. A time where our individual and collective level of consciousness is being elevated or perhaps brought back to its true essence! One of wholeness, oneness, reunion!

Shall we settle for anything less?

Aren’t you tired of seeing, reading, hearing about how we (humans) are destroying our planet, making wars, killing out of greed and profiting over one another in this incessant quest for success and money! 

If that is too macro, let’s bring it down closer to home and look at how we are living mostly a life based on status, performance, competitiveness, control, power; where hustling, money and material possessions are badges of honour. A life where your kids are telling you that they miss you because you are working too hard and long hours; not only to put food on the table, but worst to enrich shareholders (without meaningful purpose) that you are working for; or pay the next trip that “should” give meaning to our life. A life where you are making a living, and in most cases, not giving your best and unique gifts to the world, blocked by an economic system that will not sustain you (that includes the monetary compensation)! A life where our best friend has become our phone and Netflix, mere means to escape the freighting depts of our beings that are suffering! A life where we do not know our neighbour! A life where changing jobs and relationships is normal because “it just did not work for us anymore”!

A great sage once said: “It is no measure of wellbeing to be adjusted to a sick society”!

Quite true and one must admit, with a minimum of lucidity that our society is sick indeed! But there is hope and optimism. 

There is a revolution, not so silent anymore, slow but steady, of people awakening to our hearts' potential. Some will argue that a systemic change needs to happen, perhaps through a dark period or a major crisis to accelerate the healing of humanity, others still believe in the individual efforts that will impact the collective. I believe that it will take both! We must be the change we want to see as Gandhi told us! Ekkart Tolle would say:

“As within so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution!”

We have been giving a great gift, the one of life! Think about it for a second and marvel at the sense of awe looking around you! The beauty in all things, the intelligence in all things, the harmony in all things, so much love … so much love! And so are we capable of such love for ourselves, others, nature and the source of all things (whether that’s God, life, the universe, Buddha, or anything else for you).

The journey we are all embarking on is one of falling back in love with our essence, our creator! How can it be otherwise! Are we responsible for any of the awesomeness that we get to experience after all!? Yes partly, but not entirely! That’s where Gratitude comes from; no!?

This path, is one of self-growth, of consciousness … It is highly spiritual. A path that leads to love, freedom, inner peace and service for the greater good!

I see quiet quitting, conscious capitalism movements and others as tools and models that are bringing forward a much deeper longing! A deep desire that is latent within all of us, to express waves of love, beauty and creativity in ourselves, in the spirit of contribution and of service for a better world.

This path was less travelled, but now more and more are marching it. Inevitably, as I’ve realized walking this path for 20 years now, obstacles will come up! I’m not talking about the societal one here (although they are part of the equation), but the ones that are closest to you! We all have our own path and dragons to slay! On this heroic journey, we will have to face ourselves gently and with compassion to summon our inner hero and heal ourselves from the conditioning and trauma that we’ve taken on! That’s where the inner war starts! It’s all idiosyncratic, mine are different from yours and to a different degree. Yet, as we heal/transform our lives and transcend our current level of consciousness, this individual effort can only contribute to the collective and change the world.

All of our unique gifts are required at home, in our community and at work. Whether you are engaging actively in your vocation, or if it falls on your lot to have a job that you do not particularly like; there is in both circumstances an opportunity to heal yourself, grow and contribute. As Khrisna said to Arjuna in the Gitta:

“Bring forth what is within you and it will save you, don’t and it will kill you”! 

With this in mind, I will leave you friends, hereby summoning my own hero to express most fully and uniquely my inner creator and powers; to inspire and guide you in your own process of transformation! Being the ear that listens with the heart, the coach and guide that reminds you of your own power! Overcoming those limiting beliefs, road blocks that make us feel stuck, unhappy or just knowing that there is more to give! That’s our most important journey for our sake, those of our children and the world really!

How about you! What do you need to start transforming today? What’s holding you back from a loving, peaceful and abundant life? Start small, but start! Get into the most heroic journey of your life, the one of slaying your own dragons! Then share what you have learned and offer your gifts!

I honour your consciousness,the awareness and willingness to do the inner work that frees you from the trap of your own mind and ego.

Blessings,

It’s all about love

🙏💜

Max

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