I recently received the following beautiful piece of
advice from the spirit guide of one of my clients. “Down here on earth you think that
knowledge is what you gather and glean, however true wisdom comes from what you
relinquish.”
That means I suppose that as we work to raise our internal vibration we need
to let go of our preconceived ideas and prejudices, our judgments and our old unhelpful patterns. We have to relinquish the need to be right all the time and/or our
commitment to arguing a belief system. We can also let go of the search for answers or
fulfillment in money, career, possessions, or addictions of all sorts.
But then
what a challenge is left! To let go of the non-stop activity of our lives and
minds! To see beyond the accumulation of knowledge through work, study, books,
the media or even spiritual courses. To step back from the programming we’ve
run on since kindergarten, that to seek understanding we must look to the world
outside and around us.
“What
could possibly be left?” we ask. Yet it is only in stillness and silence that
we can access our own truth and inherent wisdom. It is only in the present and
wholly conscious self that we can connect with our intuitive selves and the
untold wisdom of our soul’s multifaceted story. When brave enough to let go of
our busy egocentric mind chatter, we can get to commune with our spirit guides
and teachers who want more than anything to provide us with the wisdom and perspective to get through the struggle that
is the human condition.
Certainly
for me it has been in connecting with my spirit teachers and guides that I have
received the most important insights and revelations of my journey down here. And
I believe that has often been the case for my clients too, just as in the gift of the
wise words received in the session mentioned above. The answers are not in books
or blogs or in gurus, though they can certainly point the way. The greatest
wisdom lies in our own centre, where if we invite them in, angels come to sing.
