Risks

To the small earthly self life frequently is

A risky and scary business.

That’s why we usually dislike and resent the changes

The Universe has in store for us,

So that we may learn and grow

From as many and varied experiences as possible.

While the personality, our small earthly self,

Detests the changes, our spirit and soul rejoice,

Because they understand that this is the only way

The earthly self will ever discover its own true nature.


Risks have to be taken so that our approach to life

And the way we perceive its purpose transforms itself.

We need to shed the deeply ingrained wrong thinking

And behaviour patterns, prejudices and false beliefs

That create the obstacles and difficulties in our lives.

We have to say goodbye to anything that has outlived

Its usefulness, including people and places. 


It is true that that life can be a risky thing when for example

To laugh sometimes means to risk appearing foolish;

To weep is seeming to be sentimental;

To reach out for another to become involved with them;

To expose one’s feelings means to reveal one’s True Self;

When one hopes, one risks despair;

When one tries, one risk failure;

When one lives, one risk dying –

So what?


Risks have to be taken,

Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The one who risks nothing,

Does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.

Souls who hope that in this way they can avoid

The suffering and sorrows of this world are mistaken;

They too are a necessary part of human growth.

The only thing one can hope to achieve that way is

To avoid precious opportunities for

Learning, changing, growing, loving and living.


Souls who allow themselves to remain enslaved and enchained

By their own false beliefs, rigid prejudices and opinions,

Forfeit the only freedom we truly have, namely

The spiritual freedom to think and believe what our inner Self tells us is true;

And to have the courage to act upon the knowledge

That we have come from love and that love alone can show us the way

Home into what we always have been: spirit and soul.


Only those who are willing to take the risk

Of loving the way God loves us,

Unconditionally and wisely,

Can truly be free.


Anon.