What begins to permeate into one’s awareness is how we have been enabled or how we have enabled others. There’s a fine line in understanding when the help, aid, assistance etc., becomes toxic. Most often we sincerely believe we have “empowered ourselves” through the continuing approval of others, or conversely, we have permitted another by sanctioning behavior that substantiates “unconsciousness,” to themselves and their environment. Sometimes a set of circumstances “out of our control,” completely reverses how we see our lives and clarifies perhaps for the first time, in what direction we need to go. There is no timeline for “our journey,” just signposts and the presence of our awareness giving us once again “choice.” We can make our choices more or less challenging, contingent on our “consciousness.” Once we begin to embrace ”this moment/the now,” taking that next courageous step is more than “liberating,” as is stated in the words of William Blake . . . “To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour . . .” JLR
