THOUGHTS ON MY 75TH BIRTHDAY
On my 75th Birthday I pause and reflect on three quarters of a Century on this Planet and as I enter the home stretch ~ I'm still in full stride, my heart is fully open and I'm galloping to the finish line: Allen L Roland
It was Jack London who wrote ~ " I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them ~ I shall use my time. "
My heart has never been more open, my work has never been more effective and my writing has never been more powerful.
Like Carl Jung, at this age, my best work is still ahead of me and I'm listening and fully responding to my inner guidance which still remains my honored mentor .
Many are called, few listen and fewer still respond to the call of the heart but I do ~ and it has led me eventually home to myself.
I fully experienced and knew a great truth as a child and my heart's journey has eventually led me back to that child who knew that the basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field ) which exists not only beyond time and space but ALSO beneath our deepest fears.
And now I have proved the existence of this state of soul consciousness ~ not only personally in my relationships, particularly with my life partner Keiko, but in my ongoing work as a psychotherapist.
There is nothing left to prove, no more mountains to climb, my books are published ~ I'm at peace and in a wonderful place of inner and outer celebration.
My wisdom is the wisdom of the heart but there are other wise elders who share a similar wisdom. http://www.wisdombook.org/
William James sums up my feelings precisely ~ " I am done with great things and big things and great institutions and big successes, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets or like the capillary oozing water, yet which, if you give them time, will bend the hardest monuments of human pride."
For in this rapidly collapsing age of pretense and deception ~ only the truth is revolutionary.
And the ultimate truth is LOVE.
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/01/18.html
Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
