From PERFECTION - through SELF-MASTERY - into EUDAIMONIA

For a long time I used to pursue a perfection, which lead me through learning to a path of cultivating self-mastery - for me that was about self-truth, self-knowledge, self-sovereignty, an open heart and open mind, courage and integrity.

The journeys on those paths and pursuits, then like a blossom opening its petals slowly emerging into my field, at the age of a Second Spring, is EUDAIMONIA - a depth of wellbeing, a state of flourishing, clarity of living well in full alignment with my own essence; a fulfilment in life; simple joys of everyday being, peace-fullness and presence with the currents of life force within and without...

On that journey - nothing is lost but everything is experienced, sublimated, alchemised and integrated - the past, the present, the future, no straight lines but spirals like that cloud, wind and water dragons in the beloved mountains of Wudang...

Life is an incredibly precious commodity, the physical body is a gift. But human life can feel fragile like butterfly’s wings, a gossamer in the breeze, and short like a blink of an eye against the eternity of Heaven and Earth.

And so I lift my eyes up to the vast infinite sky, but at the same time I stand solid strong with my feet firmly on the ground.

Lofty thoughts are good as they lift the mind to the spirit and let them soar high, but the heart needs the sustenance and firmness of the earth below. The soaring hight needs to be coupled with the earthy and the everyday, the ‘small’ life moments of being grounded in the here and now, the learning and living of the nitty gritty of being a human...

And together the wholeness is mighty - the mundane and the ethereal, the transient and the eternal, the lofty and the earthly - Heaven and Earth as One. And all is united in the one simple pursuit of - being true, being truly alive.

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