The Soul's Higher Adventure
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Hi friends. Welcome to the YouTopian Journey. Today’s issue discusses why you must uncover the soul’s higher adventure.
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ANSWER THE CALL
"Work’s a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you’ve heard the call, you’ve got a vocation — that’s ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno — I don’t work. And I don’t care if they hang me, I won’t work! Yet I’m alive! I may live badly, but at least I don’t have to work to do it!" - Luis Bunuel, Tristana
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, it's easy to get lost in the noise and distractions. When this happens, you may never find your way out. The calls, memos, meetings, and work piles up. Before you know it, the years have gone by.
This happens to the multitude and if you aren’t careful, it can happen to you.
However, there is a way out. A calling from within. One that the majority dulls but that you must not and cannot.
The awakening of the soul.
The call to adventure.
An inner call that beckons us to seek something greater than ourselves. Something greater than a title, greater than a promotion, greater than whatever material goods you desire. This call arises when the world is darkest. When you can’t take it anymore. When you need a deeper understanding of our purpose and you crave for something more.
And it must be answered by you.
IT MUST.
It can only be answered by you.
This is how the soul’s higher adventure begins, not with the normal and the mundane, but with the extraordinary. Something that lets you glimpse the possibilities that are there.
Once you hear it, you cannot wait.
You cannot ignore it.
You must go forward into the darkness, into the unknown, and seize what awaits you.
“Let us not wait for other people to come to us and call upon us to do great deeds. Let us instead be the first to summon the rest to the path of honor. Show yourself to be the bravest of all the captains, with more of a right to leadership than those who are our leaders at present.”-Xenophon
EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN JOURNEY
“The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing ... He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths ... There are not a few who are called awake by the summons of the voice, whereupon they are at once set apart from the others, feeling themselves confronted with a problem about which the others know nothing. In most cases it is impossible to explain to the others what has happened, for any understanding is walled off by impenetrable prejudices. "You are no different from anybody else," they will chorus or, "there's no such thing," and even if there is such a thing, it is immediately branded as "morbid"...He is at once set apart and isolated, as he has resolved to obey the law that commands him from within. "His own law!" everybody will cry. But he knows better: it is the law...The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization — absolute and unconditional— of its own particular law ... To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being ... he has failed to realize his own life's meaning.”-Carl Jung
The soul's higher adventure is not a fixed destination but an ever-unfolding journey into the unknown. It is full of twists and turns, failures and setbacks, suffering and defeats. Yet paradoxically, it is the most rewarding experience one can undertake.
Why?
Because only by heeding the call and entering the unknown will you find the life that you deserve.
Sticking to the path is playing it safe.
Paving your own path is far more dangerous.
Not questioning your purpose is refusing to rock the boat.
Questioning and striving is jumping overboard without a life jacket.
Understand that if you fail to answer the call and undertake this higher adventure, you will remain in a prison of your own making.
A prison of the same drama.
A prison of the same gossip.
A prison of the same schedule.
A prison of being comfortably numb.
A prison that has no bars or walls but still contains you.
You must escape.
You must seek the path toward your calling, your interests, your own myth.
The treasure you seek is there.
The boon is there.
The reward you are seeking is there, waiting for you. But you must have the courage to obtain it. The soul’s higher adventure is not for the timid or the meek. It is for the adventurous who know that they deserve better and will not sit around and hope that opportunity comes to them.
Instead, they undertake the adventure and go forward.
Will you?
We are counting on you.
Society needs you.
Take the chance. Answer the call. Embrace the unknown.
Do it today.
“In each one of you there is a hidden being, still in the deep sleep of childhood. Bring it to life! In each one of you there is a call, a will, an impulse of nature, an impulse toward the future, the higher. Let it mature, let it resound, nurture it!”-Hermann Hesse
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Shaun