Scott, I love this. Totally resonated - I want to quote almost every sentence! For me, you are on the money. Insightful and enlightening. Love your work.
I’ve become disillusioned with my startup life many times, often after spiritual awakenings of sorts. It's been hard motivating myself in the material world after having experienced something infinitely greater
I’ve found deep comfort in this realization that career work isn’t separate from spiritual work and advancement in the former is usually a reflection of the latter
I’m wondering if you mean that we should accept our call, and take the path that feels right (coaching in my case), without resisting the parts of you that say you’re not ready. Or if you mean to accept that the circumstances are perfect as they are, and we should work within that container in the now, to face whatever is arising.
“once we accept the call. The call is our soul’s way of bringing us back into alignment with what we came here to do. We can fight and resist it, but eventually the difficulty in our lives can become so great, that we realize it’s much easier to start working with this force instead of resisting it.”
For me accepting the call has multiple meanings. The first is starting to embrace working on your life from the inside-out. This is more the intrinsic soul purpose. Then there's moving into alignment with the expression. There intertwined. I don't know your situation, but it seems like you're having these parts come up so you can heal/work with them. Accepting the call is putting the attention there, while also moving more deeply into alignment. It's both. Does that make sense?
So accepting the call is accepting that this is the work to do today. And be there to heal it.
P.s: on my situation: I struggle to understand if what is coming up needs to be faced in the now without significant external changes (= keep current part time job, develop coaching slowly, face what comes up), or requires me to make a change to the status quo, which might be causing excessive tensions (= go all in into coaching, or at minimum reduce somehow the drag caused by the “job”, or maybe even try to merge the two).
I hear you. Here’s what my spiritual teacher would say to me. “Can you accept you’re trying to figure it out?” And then coach me to feel into that and replace with trust. Do this each time it comes up. Eventually the answer will become clear or the situation will take care of itself
I have read before that we can have multiple purposes in life as opposed to just one reason for existing. And you have so eloquently boiled it down to evolutionary purpose and a contributory purpose. It not only resonates, but it's given me a realisation of why some things in my own spiritual growth happened how they did.
Appreciate your unfiltered sharing of your experiences as always!
Glad this helped man. All credit goes to George for that eloquent phrasing. In general, the deeper on my path I go, the more I see it's never one or the other, but always both - inner purpose and outer purpose being a prime example.
“You are exactly where you are supposed to be. This really is happening for you, perfectly. So just settle in.” Needed that. Thank you 🙏
Glad this came to you when you needed it Jenny!
I can relate 100% as I had a very similar situation. Now It is all about finding the soul brothers and sisters that hear the call.
Definitely much better to go on the journey and co-create with others
What were your circumstances, Alan? Would be happy to hear and relate.
I love this framing, thanks Scott!
thanks man! Glad it resonated
Scott, I love this. Totally resonated - I want to quote almost every sentence! For me, you are on the money. Insightful and enlightening. Love your work.
Thanks so much Andy! I appreciate the kind words
I’ve become disillusioned with my startup life many times, often after spiritual awakenings of sorts. It's been hard motivating myself in the material world after having experienced something infinitely greater
I’ve found deep comfort in this realization that career work isn’t separate from spiritual work and advancement in the former is usually a reflection of the latter
Spot on. It's all one thing. Excited for the narrative around these aspects of our lives to move from compartmentalization to integration
Scott, can you elaborate on this below?
I’m wondering if you mean that we should accept our call, and take the path that feels right (coaching in my case), without resisting the parts of you that say you’re not ready. Or if you mean to accept that the circumstances are perfect as they are, and we should work within that container in the now, to face whatever is arising.
“once we accept the call. The call is our soul’s way of bringing us back into alignment with what we came here to do. We can fight and resist it, but eventually the difficulty in our lives can become so great, that we realize it’s much easier to start working with this force instead of resisting it.”
For me accepting the call has multiple meanings. The first is starting to embrace working on your life from the inside-out. This is more the intrinsic soul purpose. Then there's moving into alignment with the expression. There intertwined. I don't know your situation, but it seems like you're having these parts come up so you can heal/work with them. Accepting the call is putting the attention there, while also moving more deeply into alignment. It's both. Does that make sense?
So accepting the call is accepting that this is the work to do today. And be there to heal it.
P.s: on my situation: I struggle to understand if what is coming up needs to be faced in the now without significant external changes (= keep current part time job, develop coaching slowly, face what comes up), or requires me to make a change to the status quo, which might be causing excessive tensions (= go all in into coaching, or at minimum reduce somehow the drag caused by the “job”, or maybe even try to merge the two).
I hear you. Here’s what my spiritual teacher would say to me. “Can you accept you’re trying to figure it out?” And then coach me to feel into that and replace with trust. Do this each time it comes up. Eventually the answer will become clear or the situation will take care of itself
Thank you for writing this, Scott.
I have read before that we can have multiple purposes in life as opposed to just one reason for existing. And you have so eloquently boiled it down to evolutionary purpose and a contributory purpose. It not only resonates, but it's given me a realisation of why some things in my own spiritual growth happened how they did.
Appreciate your unfiltered sharing of your experiences as always!
Glad this helped man. All credit goes to George for that eloquent phrasing. In general, the deeper on my path I go, the more I see it's never one or the other, but always both - inner purpose and outer purpose being a prime example.