The Wisdom of Eric

Awakening

In one of my most profound meetings with Eric, we just sat in silence and after 25 minutes something important emerged for me.  I realised that I was so grateful for the people and circumstances in my life, and for a moment, I felt deeply and spiritually connected to something wonderful, although sadly I could not stay open to the experience.

As I reflected on why, it felt like the  fear of letting my emotions open fully to the experience would overwhelm me, as it was going to take me somewhere too deep, from where I would not be able to return.  A bit like being on the surface of an ocean and then diving down through the beautiful blue, but never to return from the inky black.

Eric wondered whether I was unfolding, that something was in the process of being born in me, and if we surrender to it and listen deeply to what is going on in ourselves, we are being guided. I find it so hard to just surrender to this process, and to let it unfold in its good time, yet I also know intuitively that I need to pay more attention to it.

Victor Frankl thought that we are all driven to seek meaning in our lives. But I wonder if perhaps I will never truly know meaning, as the mystery, will always be greater than me. The closest I can come to it, is to imagine that I am just one facet of a beautiful diamond.  I too shine brightly, but I will never see the whole diamond, magnificently shining and sparkling away.  And as I conclude; perhaps that is the meaning.  We just need to shine.

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