Discipline and Devotion

Yes, discipline and devotion. This is the invitation that is being offered to me now.

Discipline- to show up, to remain committed for myself, for oneself.

Devotion- the service aspect, serving, being of service.

Not doing to do, to check or tik a box or say you do, to say “I do.”

It’s the inner feeling, the connection, the deeper relationship within, rather than the external.

It’s like the knowing. Knowing. It is known. I do not have to pronounce the knowing, get others to be on board, to see. No. That is not it. Everyone is on their own path and they have choices. For me, I know. I speak, I share, I stand here in this knowing. Knowing. Stepping with a knowing. The knowing that is expressing itself through me right now and the knowing that will shift as I step while simultaneously remain the same. The knowing that is always here. The knowing that has always been here. The knowing that I now know, that I now access.

This knowing. It is available to each of us, for all of us through discipline and devotion.

For me it is not the way, the only way, for many people access this knowing through their own way, their own path of discovery.

Discipline, the commitment for me to move beyond, to meet myself before my mind.

The poem, A Great Wagon by Rumi has this quote:

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

The field, it is not a location one can access physically, like a grassy field with flowers and such. Rather it is a space, a space we can each access within ourselves, a space in which opinions, right, wrong, my way, what I have done, who I know are irrelevant; they are not important. This space is beyond, this space is before all of this.

It is this knowing. This is the knowing.

Trust. I surrender to this. This which I know, this which has always been here, this which continues to support, bolster and provide for me. All is taken care of. It always is. It always has been. All is taken care of. There is no lack, there is no need. I have more than enough. We all do. We have more than enough. All that is needed, is offered.

This phrase, discipline and devotion, how they merge, how they continue to show up for me, the phrase, these two words together are an invitation.

An invitation to dance. The dance of this discipline and devotion.

Dance. This dance. This grace and movement that expresses itself between discipline and devotion.

It is not all or another. The balance, the movement, the fluid expression. The steps. The invitation to co-create the moment, to be present. To be responsive.

What is required of you in this very moment?  What is the spontaneous right action that is being ask of you in this very moment?

Here.

Now.

How the here and now is viewed, in the stance in which one views, the lens shifts. The lens shifts it all, shifts the perspective of how you look when you look from here and now.

For that is what is here, now. Always, here and now.

Everything else is a thought. Is an idea. Is a projection. Not tangible. It exists only as a thought on the level of the mind.

Here and Now, is here and now. The present.

Maintain this present state.

Drop all of the stories, the narrative, the perceived ideas, thoughts and notions. Lay them all down.

All that is arising for you, is for you. It is part of your work.

The work required. The work that is necessary for you to engage with to evolve, to grow beyond.

All that is arising for you is an invitation for you to grow.

It is beautiful. Simply beautiful.

All is designed to work out. All of it. It always does. Maybe not that way you thought or projected, but here you are. It all works out.

The huge challenges, that which feels like life is ending, the life you know, the life you have come to know, the life that has become known, yes, aspects of this come to an end. The endings create space for newness, for growth to emerge.

This is life. This is life. This is life.

Create. Sustain. Destroy.

Generate. Organize. End.

These are the patterns of life. The cycles of life. The cycles within life. There are discontinuous events. There are beginnings.

We talk about this with animals and plants. With seasons. Why do we not talk about these cycles in regards to us, to our own lives.

What happens in our life?

There are ends. There are beginnings.

There are ends. It is naïve to think it all remains the same.

Discipline and devotion.

Trust. The unknown is far greater than anything we could ever imagine. Get out of your own way. Surrender. Trust.

“Dance with me. I want to be your partner, can’t you see…”

Co-creating and dancing with life and inviting you to do the same,

Sara