A gem cannot be polished without friction

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Seneca

The experience of life among many things is a mountain with no top.
We are forever climbing it with no ultimate place to arrive at, and by virtue of us being human, our humanity will always be with us.

And while I find this to be beautiful and inspiring, the fact that we are never done and there will always more work to do. This too can become a trap. Always looking for it, doubling down on our efforts to get perfected as to not be with our own humanity, looking for the next thing to solve, to fix, and have it go differently. I often get caught here myself, and often from a disempowered place.

With that being said the point of this is the possibility that is available in choosing a place to come from, in relation to doing this work of polishing ourselves. Choosing to do this consciously and intentionally, I find this to be one of the most potent ways to cause transformation.

The point is not arriving at perfection and never having edges but having our lives be an expression of our highest consciousness.

This is the new distinction I’ve been present to this week. And I’ve been practicing choosing a different stand and relationship, one that empowers me, one that allows for both, being fully with my own edges without the urge to fix them and have them be any different while working with and through them.

This is the art I’m committed to creating and invite my clients into.

What is your current edge and consequent breakthrough?

Love,
David