A Dream Down the Path Well Trodden
Posted on Nov 14th, 2006
by 
Alex Chua
Alex Chua
That's me in a dream... leaving behind my nugget of gold... and walking down a well trodden path... a path that brings us within. This is a path that one must walk alone... with death waiting at the end of it. What is beyond death I cannot see from here, but I can see enough to give me the courage to continue walking... at least for now... I continue walking because in walking I put a part of myself back into life... in walking I hope to show someone that a path exist beyond the limits of our sight.
This path can only be seen with the vision of one's spirit... a vision that is born out of a desire for clarity. It is a path that leads within... towards the heart. It is a path beyond the sight of our eyes... a path that is audible only to the ears of our hearts. It is a path that quakes to the alternating beats of love and fear. It is a split in reality that reveals the possibilities beyond. It is also a split that epitomizes the fine border between the genius and the insane. Both stands out for they are genuine, but only one of them is productive and persuasive.
The other is lost in a separate universe of his own construct... a world that is just as real, only isolated. The rest who are neither genius nor insane are… well… simply sane. Our world is full of sane people, living in their own world but no longer aware of it, for they now wear the uniform of conformity, put on a tie of restraint and hide their emotions behind the mask of diplomacy. These are the ones who belong... to a shared vision... of relentless growth... driven by the rules of economics and politics…
I lost my balance... I tripped, I fell, I stood up. I was tired but I knew I must go on. I want to go on, I will go on and I can go on. I asked for the Power equivalent to my Purpose and I found it within myself.
This Power is the Power of Self-Belief.
This Power is the Power of Self-Awareness.
This Power is the Power of Self-Responsibility.
This Power is the Power of Self-Expression.
This is the Power to BARE my HEART of SUCCESS™!
The further I go, the more isolated I am from reality as I used to know it. The path within starts out wide and bright but soon becomes narrow and chaotic, leading me into darkness. It was in this darkness that I came face to face with my fears. I wanted to run away... to wake up from this dark dream, but the only way out of the darkness was to go through it...
It was during theses hours of desperation that I finally turned toward the light and love within and realize that no matter how dark and depressing it is around me, I have within me SPARKS of light that hold the potential to start a great many fires of passion.
I found myself laughing like a lunatic and out of my laughter echoes of light are born, cutting through the cold darkness that has been enveloping me. A fiery fire of passion emerges, giving the forest a golden luster that glows through the blanket of darkness. Shadows appear in various shades, dancing around me like a million daggers.
I am again besieged with fear. Rejection hugs me in its bosoms, suffocating me. The light was illuminating the forest, bringing out the shadows of those who have been lurking by the peripherals. They turn away from the light for their eyes are so accustomed to the darkness. Their shadows fall in front of them and they become aware of aware of the darkness that have been surrounding them.
There is a moment of clarity. The fear that is hugging me is no longer the same fear. This time I recognize that it is not my fear. The love and light shines forth with a greater intensity than before. The bodies of the trees are scorched and burnt by the heat... but with their return to ashes, their leaves are released from bondage… free… rising into the sky like feathers of a heavenly phoenix. A reunification with the Source (of life).
Love, Light & Laughter!
(c) 2006, Forest Spirit (a.k.a. Alex Chua ;-)
The path well trodden is a journey within, a Clarity Quest that gives us the Power of Self-Awareness. With Attention comes Awareness & with Awareness we have Choice.
“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” ~ Walter Anderso
"Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed." ~ Elizabeth O'Connor
"Important elements of Life are communal, but ultimately Life is experienced alone." ~ Mike Morrill
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July 2008
Hello Alex,
There are 2 main Gifts I was born with which help in being the way I am: to be able to have a Vision and to foolish enough to stand up for it.
This ” being foolish” is a positive fact; I am aware that for my vision ( yours too), it takes many lifes to become reality in practice, but TIME is relative. Someone have to start and be foolish enough not to expect to live the concrete results.
I am foolish enough to believe that people are or will be less coward; I am foolish enough to believe that LIFE IS BEYOND ANY PRICE, I am foolish enough to go on deeper for the truths (obvious for a lot), to believe that MONEY won't buy people to chase me, to threaten me, to stop me; I am foolish enough to believe that there will be a time when people will produce goods for the benefit of their lifes and not to kill and distroy their life; I am foolish enough to believe that integrity will be a respected VALUE and will be applied instead of corruption, which buys with Money people to lie, people to make harm to others, people to discriminate others; I am foolish enough to believe that THE HUMAN RIGHTS TREATEE, UN, WHO etc. are DOING WHAT THEY SAY AND MEANING WHAT THEY VALUE, NOT VICEVERSA; I am foolish enough to believe that man-made “diseases”, treatments, are not weapons to distroy people or experiment on lifes…. being foolish helps. I was born Gifted and I realized HOW difficult this burden is to bear. But The Universal Spirit doesn't make mistakes; IT EMPOWERED ME WITH GIFTS AND THE MAIN ONE IS FOOLISHNESS TO TRUST THAT LIVING IN ITS LIGHT AND TRUTH, IS MY MAIN SUPPORT TO LIVE MY VISION IN PRACTICE, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THE LIFETIME.
Being MORE THAN ONE, WE can make a difference for the TIMES TO COME!
There is no other way, it's a one-way street!
Blessings !
Gabriela
PS. I am HAPPY I am foolish; it's my Gift. I suppose, your “Craziness ” is your Happiness too, a kind of the other side of the same coin.
THE WHOLE, THE ONE EXISTS !
I SO much relate to this: “Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.” ~ Elizabeth O'Connor
When I visualized this spiritualy, I had to envision accepting the “demons” within my soul. I had to not shun my negative feelings, I had to accept myself, entirely, unequivocally, and suddenly, the negative feelings within myself were pacified, and I was whole again, and filled with love and inner peace within. Everything around me felt calm. ^_^