It Found Me. Power and Grace.

Reflections ~ I saw it this way...by Janice Brown

It took me by the hand and walked me through the world with such power and grace that I will continue to walk this way as long as I live.

I know that’s a bold statement and may even seem a little reckless. Perhaps I don’t mind that. Being a forward thinker, I want to know what lies ahead of me around every curve as much as the next guy. But being who we are, we can never really know that. But we can know with certainty and even conviction that we can handle it. That we will rise again, as some would say, simply because we know no other way of being.

This is what a SolePath does—solidifies clarity. Beyond that, it’s up to you. It’s your cart, your horse, your apples. Whatever you choose to do, know that the person beside you is making the same choices, just maybe in a different order or through a different series of thought processes.

It’s easy to be who you are when you can trip and fall down and know you have a solid plan for dusting yourself off and getting back up on your feet again.

My SolePath is something I feel a great deal of conviction towards; it has lifted me higher than I’ve ever expected to see. It has let me down gently and it has let me down hard, and that’s just the way it is with life and living. And once in a while it has given me a chance to see myself with such clarity that all I can really do is marvel about: the world, and me around it and me, and the world around me.

Hmmm. Which way does that go? How should I look at it?

Doesn’t really matter. Doesn't really make it right or wrong, just another way of viewing these things. And that’s the oldest take in the book; I can do no wrong because nobody can see the world through the same eyes I do, so they can’t know what it is I am doing anyway.

But and this is a big BUT... they can know I am certain, with conviction, with kindness and compassion in my heart, and that’s all there really is to know. Can I live through life and still meet up with heartache and hurt, betrayal and dissolution, without turning in a direction where I would cast the first stone?

These are the questions we all explore in life. And this is what it takes to be who you are. A certain conviction of character and character looks different for all of us. We can’t march through this world holding the same bottle of magic potion. That would be a little disruptive to the change maker within each of us.

We all evolve at different rates and under different circumstances. And this is how you’ll know you’re doing just fine—you found a way through with your head held high without tearing anyone down. And for me, that’s enough.

I am a romantic at heart. I have a complete and utter way of being in love, and the love I feel for one is always the way I feel about doing what I’m doing. I want to do better, be better, be stronger, be more helpful, be more aware, be more alive, and be more Me. And that’s it really; when I have found I can be more Me, then I know I’m on the right path.

And when I have found that I have had to acquiesce and bend to conform, then I feel a certain unsettling within my heart that makes my boat rock a little harder on what looks like calm seas. This is how bounds are broken and how we lift ourselves up, not by being the one who puts another down but by being one that lifts others up around them.

That’s a beautiful landscape, and we all could use a little more of it. For Me, I’ve perched on a mountaintop and seen nothing but clouds, and I’ve lain on the bottom of the ocean and seen

nothing but light.

How about you? How do you see it?

I saw it this way.

~ A Girl

I’ve been working with the Tao as long as I’ve lived; and so have you. Here’s what that means to me, I’m a problem solver and I use the Tao as a framework for my discussion. In my writing and my work, I share with you how I use it, and you can decide if that’s helpful for you or not.

Janice writes from the Heart in the moment. She writes specifically from her point of view. You may not have seen it this way before, but that's the whole point—to turn it around and look at it another way.