I may have posted something like this before. If so, my apologies. I write so much, I can’t remember the details. I am continuing to take off voice memos to myself. Good God I am talkative. I am editing the content down.
To live in love is to live in chaos. I visualize being attacked by darkness. What the dark wants is routinization, and a pattern that never changes. That pattern may be outwardly helpful, it may serve the cause of Goodness for some period of time. But the world changes around us, and to fail to see that, is to fall off the Path. As Lao Tzu wrote the Way that can be told–the Way that can be defined statically, and without alteration forever–is not the Eternal Path. For that, you have to dance with the stars.
Sometimes the easy path is the hard one. Sometimes you have to skip the bridge and walk through the marsh. You can complain about it all you want, but in my view that’s the way it works.
Goodness is wildness. It is being untamed, never quite sure what the next step is. That’s the way to live, in my view. I could be wrong–but I make new decisions every day.
Tony Robbins, or one of the motivational gurus, used the example of a plane flying from California to Hawaii. It is off course something like 90% of the time, but the pilots make constant corrections to accomodate the wind or whatever. If you are making regular decisions, based on core principles, you can never stray too far off course, if you allow yourself to see. Only by saying, once, “this is the line that will never change” can you wind up in Japan.