The Golden Path
I have been asked about my "Golden Path" several times recently. To what do I refer to? What does that mean?
"What is it? A religion? A political position? What?"
I'm still surprised that someone would ask me "what do you mean by the term Golden Path?" Until then, I just said it and assumed everyone understood my meaning. Then, a few nights ago, a friend asked me what it was.
The answer:
"A small pebble, thrown in a peaceful pond. Going outward, a good thing is done."
That's it. That's the Golden Path, explained.
The Path requires purity and a high degree of vigil and commitment. It is balanced, graceful, loving, harmonious movement of mind and body in the service of creativity, in the service of humanity.
These motions, this grace, this harmony, all are part of the final realization of one's deepest goals and desires, of one's longings that bring that 'painful pleasure' to the one who serves, the seeker of Truth. True deep love is (and feels) exactly like each step on the Path. Each step makes ripples. All steps have meaning for every motion taken towards fulfillment.
Our bodies respond to ripples. There is no "small" event anywhere in systemic chaos. The loving approach to chaos is to seek after order. To quietly suggest — and attain — order takes great skill and courage.
To impose order takes another kind of power, a power not of interest here.
And My particular path, My Golden Path, requires only that I follow it and NEVER fall off of the My Path. And of course, I have. And I will. But so far I have lived to learn. I watch my steps, and remind myself that unforeseen detours ALSO teach enormous lessons, and so become inseparable, even necessary, to advance.
And what are my goals?
One facet, a major facet and goal of this Path: to follow My Music wherever it leads, and follow it to the exclusions of all other's judgements, offers of money, bribes, threats of violence, non-employment, or consensual failure. If failure is consensual, it is not failure. It is merely unpopular. Actually, it's a good sign that you're getting warm, going in the right direction.
Another goal is to fulfill the highest most serene, balanced, and graceful level of womanhood attainable to me. The Universe exists in duality, and I, as a female person, am never far from my feelings. My Path and my future directs me to deeper awareness of pure self, and that self is singularly and strongly yin. It is the reason My Path has become more clearly visible to me within the last 10-11 years: I stopped listening to the orders and expectations and directions and productions engineered for me by men. And there is no blame here. I allowed it.
Remember that no one is their web site. The person is not the persona.
Now that I have awakened, I cannot allow it. I am not meant to compete. I am not made to compete. I am here to wildly create, and to communicate, and to cooperate.
I am complete with this Path, this Life, and this Reality. I am happy. The threads of my life hold firm.
My music fills my soul as does my personal love for my dearest one, and my love for this Golden Path is as solid as ever. I move in the Alam Al-mithal, the Universe in which limits are lifted. There are no limits to the Truth. It cannot be stopped or tamed or rushed or avoided.
Observations . . . not rules, not always full Truths:
"A thing cannot exist without its opposite." (JW)
"Humans are prone to seek sand in the desert." (Frank Herbert)
"Life does not always accommodate our goals — but it often provides the wisdom and the means to achieve other goals, usually better suited to our innermost desires."(JW)
"Through our 'front' we face the Many-fold Path. But it is through our back that we truly know love and fear. If someone 'has your back' you are blessed." (JW)
"Logic is blind and often knows only its own past." (Frank Herbert)
"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the Self, formation and perfection of that Self demands the utmost care and attention." (JW)
"Spend your energies on those who make you strong. Spending it otherwise will deplete you, waste your Power, and drag you down to doom." (JW)
"Never step back, never back down, feet on the edge, face to the wind" (Old country song)
"If it never gets any better than this, it's still better than it ever was." (JW)
"Never support weakness. Always support strength." (Frank Herbert)
"Choose wisely the myths you carry. They have teeth and they bite." (JW)
"The flesh exists to feel the things that flesh feels." (Frank Herbert)
"A great challenge is to overcome entropy, to break through those barriers which enclose and isolate our lives, those roadblocks that limit our energy for work and fulfillment. We must go up the entropy slope." (JW)
"Logic, belief systems, and politics all stifle the impulse for wild creativity. Beyond these tricks of the mind awaits our Freedom." (JW)
"Any Path contains surprises . . . and wages." (JW)
"Better to fall in a crusade than watch as at a parade." (JW)
"Your self and its limits are largely opinion: your own and other's. Break this habit and you will find that reality is quite different than you had previously imagined." (JW)
"Humanity moves as one beast." (Frank Herbert)
"What senses do we lack that we cannot see the other Universe that exists all around us?"(Frank Herbert)
"A self-serving act often serves no one." (JW)
"Face your Fears or they will climb over your back." (Frank Herbert)
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