Jennifer Hoffman – We’re tempted to look for the end of every journey, especially if it has been challenging, as so much of this one has been. But we also think that at ‘the end’ there’s going to be an end to the strife and chaos and there can be, only if we turn the ‘end’ of a cycle into a new beginning and lift the energy we’re using to create our reality. It is a little like finishing one race to start another but with each new race we get a new mode of transportation. So if our first race is on foot, then for the second we get a bicycle, and for the third we get a moped, and so on. Eventually we arrive at the super charged sports car so we can go around the track much faster, but we’re still going around the track of endings and beginnings, lessons and learning, as we move from healing to wholeness to congruence.
If we look at our lives in the full spectrum of all of our lifetimes, we can see all of the progress that we have made on the totality of our spiritual journey. Then all of the healing we have achieved is clear and our journey makes sense, has purpose, and we get its meaning. But if we look at only this lifetime then all we see is struggle and we think we’re crawling through it on our hands and knees, when we are actually going around the track much more quickly. The reason we feel this way is we think that the end of the journey is where we get to stop and then we get very disappointed, frustrated, and disillusioned when we realize that there is no end. There is, it’s just different than what we think.
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