Pattern

Soul work is simple.

I’ve been up to my ears learning about the culture of Aotearoa’s first people - the Waitaha.

They are ruthlessly devoted to simplicity.

Basic education was taught between ages 5 to 10.

(Including - complete genealogy of the tribe for thousands of years, complete history, routes of every waterway and mountain in aotearoa, name and habits of every species of animal and plant and constellation...)

Everything revolves around the one simple pattern. To point out how it is the same here, and it changes over there, and they fit perfectly together.

I feel like soul work is simple - not easy, simple - because it is about not working against the grain. Great currents call the swallows to mate or migrate. They call me in the same way. With enough stillness I can hear, and I can follow.

As graham was musing, “purpose” could be heard as “to be put in your place”.

Today I savor the words of Alastair McIntosh. I would have loved to hear them when I was 14, faced with decisions about my life that felt so complicated, blurry.

- does what i do feed the hungry?

- is it relevant to the poor or the broken in nature?

- does it contribute to understanding and meaningfulness?

- does it give life?

#simplicity #purpose #soulwork