This world can often seem a terrifying place. Our corresponding quest for safety and security is a natural impulse learned from prehistoric times. In their efforts to survive and thrive, all animals seek shelter and defense from the threats of danger which they encounter merely by virtue of being alive.

Just so, letting go and releasing all desire for safety may appear to be a fool’s strategy, and certainly counter-intuitive to the mandate of our genes. Paradoxically, however, it is only in the surrender of all we imagine will keep us safe that we are able to discover at last that which is truly safe and secure.

We didn’t leave home to find some human notion of immunity from the fearful creations of our own minds. That is not our purpose. We already were and are eternally secure, safe beyond all measure. What we wanted was to taste its opposite, to immerse ourselves in the challenge of the unknown, the unsafe, the insecure.

We didn’t don this light-loving form to hide away in some womb-like cave, cringing in the dark. We are explorers by nature, discovering ourselves anew in all we encounter. This realm is an opportunity, not a curse. We didn’t go through what it takes to get here, only to turn and run away before we’ve had a chance to completely throw ourselves into the game, the ride, the world made flesh.

This realm is one of countless learning environments we enter to discover more about who and what we really are. What a waste to stay asleep. In the love eyes of our immortal soul, the time we spend in these human forms amounts to little more than the blink of an eye. Those who remain a victim of their own fears, avoiding life’s gracious offer, do themselves no service, but only pass on with regret.