Hold Fast to Dreams, let go of expectations

“I like to think of psychology as soul-searching: you search your soul and you also search for your soul; and, of course, on the quest your soul is searching with you”

                                                                                      John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes, p. 231

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I am all for soul searching

I want to be aware, even if it is painfully aware

of my soul

of that part of me which truly,

because it is the place where Sacred lives,

defines me

I want to find that place

(which can sometimes be difficult to find)

and delve deeply

who am I really?

what does it mean to be me, truly me?

this searching can be overrated and overdone

we can end up scraping away at our souls

we can become judgmental and rigid observers of our souls

rather than people who live from the soul

self awake

participants in our “one beautiful, unrepeatable life” (p. 235)

but still, any such endeavor is worth the risk

on my many treks into my soul,

here is one thing I have learned,

if nothing else

if I am going to come home to myself

and live from the soul

I have to let go of my expectations, always

but my dreams, never

I always need to keep hold of my dream of belonging

but must let go of my expectation about what that might look like

It is good to dream of success, or relevance, but I must let go of my expectations

about what success of relevance must look like

the soul comes up with its own definitions

as in Sacred Presence

we waken

to our own eternity