Daily writing prompt
Do you believe in fate/destiny?
View from the Space Needle
You are the sky; the rest is just weather.
Pema Chodron
There have been too many synchronicities and uncanny happenstances in my experience for me to believe we can map our lives in some one-sided free-will-and-power-through sort of way, calculating cause and effects just so. However I know we can cultivate conditions for the openness that makes meaningful coincidence more likely.
I guess I believe in awareness and seek to live with a sense life is inherently bountiful, with my work then being to allow my perception to grow into that reality more fully. It's a 'get more and more out of the way' philosophy, which requires trust even when I don't feel it or see reasons for it around me.
Faith in the eventual flowering of consciousness, perhaps. 🪷
But do I think some one could be destined to be some thing?
There have been times when I played out a script that seemed bound to happen due to a dream or turn or events, not remembering nor recognizing the signs leading to that point until afterward. There have also have been times I recognized the curtain opening to fate, so to speak, after much preparation, then decided to leap on stage.
But, did "I" leap? I don't know. There was an experience of being less separate from what was happening. There was a leap, and I was part of it. I don't count on these experiences nor find myself specially chosen because of them. I did at some point, but that's natural because so many of the stories we tell each other are heroic. What is it if you believe in callings without a central call center? 🙂
Certainly too, I've met "lifelong friends at first encounter"s, and when that has happened, have thrown caution to the wind with excitement and urgency. I titled an earlier post Angels Unawares, and though I may have a complicated relationship with the Christianity of my upbringing as well as the book its based on, I think that phrase/idea captures a lot of what I believe.
I just don't have a formula for it in that way.
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