Highest Self

I have not had the time to post anything... life seem to have changed since about a month ago. Yes, this time, I am busy.

Update: I am now studying again, and again...this is the never ending saga of putting things in my brain in the hope that one day I could think of a good use for it. Like saving articles on the hard disk without reading it, hoping that one day I would.

What do I want to get out of this? "Wala Lang" is my usual reply. That is so me! I just think it is what the moment asks of me... i just respond.

Amazing Pido, :) a friend told me recently : I should be my Highest Self. I even think, aside from "No rush", this is the mantra of his life.

I did not understand. Nor do I claim to fully understand already. But something happened to me after that "long, slow lunch". I was unaware that I will begin a journey.

He encouraged me to seek my art. My work led me to him but he taught me that I am not my work. He encouraged me to recreate, to do things for "joy". The days following that encounter, I was led to people who in turn led me to do story telling for kids ( the theatrical type) and singing. I did not ask for it, it fell on my lap. I found "joy" in it and fully immersed myself in it. Art found me so to speak.

After these coincidental encounters, my passion for teaching was rekindled, and things started to happen. Where this will lead me next is still in question.

Do not get me wrong. I enjoy life as it is now. Obviously, I love my work, my family, everything! And I find that love abounds here. But life seems to be flowing to yet another direction. I am a leaf carried over to another stream. I do not know what is in store or when the changes are set but, like at dawn, another sunrise is peeking.

Life is beautiful. The landscape always changes color. It is the same place but it has a different mood.

Life beckons me to be my highest self. What that is, I am bound to discover. I just have to say yes to the moment. How is the highest self achieved? Of the little that I know, this is how it seems...

Our highest self is not achieved in what we say, it is in who we listen to...

Our highest self is not achieved in who we will be or am, it is in the "walking towards being"....

Our highest self is not achieved in the wholeness but in the pieces of ourselves we leave behind as we pass by....

Our highest self is not achieved in what we accomplish but in the "what for?"

Our highest self is not achieved in what "already is" but in the "looking forward to"...

Hope abounds in this journey. I will take it a step at a time, knowing that the next step is what matters.