Understanding who you are.

That's an interesting one in a thread that is largely about change. My understanding of who I am is in a constant state of flux. In fact, I find that I have the best understanding of myself when I allow that understanding to happen as a kind of flow.

A few years ago, while doing some meditating, I got a sense of some words and a concept. I tend to think of words and concepts that come to me in that way and at times like that as being the same thing as that "still small voice" that many spiritual perspectives mention as being important. The words were these:

Let life lead you by the hand

...and that is what I have been doing ever since. It's been a good lesson for me to allow myself to do that. Instead of projecting onto my future what I think belongs there and clinging to that, I've been allowing the things that really do belong there to flow into my life and to fill it. Many blessings have come into my life since I started to live it in that way.