I hope you don't mind me speaking personally here for a minute: As I get older, I realise more and more that all the previous identities I built up, are not actually me. I don't feel bad about them. They were necessary. They were all I had. But as time goes on I begin to notice old thought patterns, habits and ways of being falling away. I've always questioned everything, but now I'm not even sure who's doing the questioning. Someone said to me once that we continually build up a paradigm with which to understand the world. Then, step by step, life goes about dismantling this paradigm with it's small or big tragedies, it's disappointments and it's revelations...and we have to build up a whole new paradigm! Even the spiritual paradigms we have need to continually be renewed...otherwise they just become another dogma to cling to. Then there's the fact that as we grow, we find more and more parts of ourselves, that we didn't know existed...even as other parts die away. This can be wonderful and terrifying. But all is growth...and it doesn't seem to end. But maybe we can also find "rest" within this continual growth and movement. This is my big challenge and something I want to solve. This journey the self is not for the faint hearted. But if you're on that path to becoming more and more of who you are (whoever that is), welcome. Warm wishes Mick PS. would love to hear your thoughts and experiences on this. Please feel free to comment below and I'll get back to you asap (Art work: Antonín Slavíček - "In the Veltrusy Park", 1901)

Great news!! Next Thursday at 4pm UK (12pm Eastern USA) time I'll be running the first of our live "Spiritual Development Sessions". This only for members of this community and the first few will be free. As a member, you'll receive an email in the next few days with the link to join and the all details. Look forward to seeing you there! Warm wishes Mick Young PS. Please type "Got it" in the comments below to let me know you got this message. Thank you!

Did Steiner write on that? The interplay between the will forces (intending, aspiring, applying, pursuing) and the more receptive states. I find it still quite trendy in spiritual jargon (New Age primarily) to speak of "surrender" and the need for surrender and fair enough but what we are surrendering to? The "flow" could well be the status quo and the programmed societal narratives of control often times. The path of least resistance is not necessarily the higher path, the moral path. On that subject, another philosophical question that has always had a grip on me: free will or destiny? It could be paraphrased as old karma or new karma? We create new karma every day and yet there are fated events and consequences all derived from past karma. I'll pause here as too much to ponder 😜 Any reflections welcome!