Deep Calls To Deep

Our Individual Need for Greater Contemplation and Wisdom

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If you are like me the last decade has been exhausting. I feel as if I have been afloat a rickety raft of loosely bound driftwood with towering ocean waves crashing down on me from all sides day after day with no reprieve. It is difficult to see calm, to trust there are still waters beyond the tempest when all you can do is hold tight to avoid being swallowed by the storm.

If we are to be honest about our situation in a less metaphorical way, we feel as if we do not have control over the daily chaos we find ourselves within. The chaos with-out very quickly becomes the chaos with-in. We carry on with the assumption that if we could tame, or control, what surrounds us then life would be more peaceful, more fulfilling.

But what if we have had it exactly backwards?

What if rather than trying to impossibly curate a lived experience from the outside, hoping that it might make us feel better, or more alive, we begin this journey from a place where we have much greater control- from within ourselves.

We each have a deep longing for more. More peace. More presence. More freedom. More joy. Even if we do not admit it to others, deep inside, we want more. But very few have told us how to cultivate that kind of interior experience. We amble aimlessly on the edges and contours of life, not knowing how to go deeper. Yet, despite our circumstances, our lived experiences, our environments, ourselves, deep still calls out to deep.

This newsletter is an attempt to change our orientation, from the outside to within. It will be insights, stories, and lessons with the intention of cultivating a deeper level of contemplation and wisdom within us so that we no longer feel tossed and turned by the crashing waves. It is a step forward to reengaging with what it means to be fully and completely alive and regaining our fundamental sense of humanity.

Peace,

Brandon