DOES THIS PATH HAVE MY HEART?

Every now and then, I sit with myself and ask:

Why am I doing this?

Does this path have my heart?

It’s a question I’ve learned to return to, as we can get so easily distracted and confused by the speed at which the world moves. We’re constantly encouraged to do more, move faster, and accumulate more. So pausing to listen feels essential to me.

And every time I ask myself this question in relation to teaching, I arrive at the same answer… YES.

Because there is something deeply fulfilling about this work, about seeing people being more attuned to themselves and the environment, to the truth of their spirit.

Also, each time I return to the material and deepen into how to share it, I learn something new.

The process of teaching asks me to refine my own understanding again and again, to look more closely, to question more deeply.

In his book “The Teachings of Don Juan”, Carlos Castañeda shares these powerful words:

“Look at every path closely and deliberately.Try it as many times as you think necessary.Then ask yourself, and by yourself, one question:Does this path have a heart?

If it does, the path is good.If it doesn’t, it is of no use.

Both paths lead nowhere;but one has a heart, and the other doesn’t.

One makes for a joyful journey;as long as you follow it, you are one with it.

The other will make you curse your life.

One makes you strong;the other weakens you.”

Is not whether the path is easy or comfortable, but whether, as you walk it, you feel a kind of deep vitality, meaning, and expansion, even with its challenges.

So before you set out on any path, you can take some time to reflect and feel in your body the sensations that emerge when you ask yourself: Does this path have a heart?

Pause…and notice.

Where there is a sensation of ease, openness, lightness, there is often direction already forming into perhaps a Yes.If there is contraction, tightness, heaviness, the answer might be a No, and then you might have to sit a bit longer in contemplation.

Trust that clarity has its own timing. Sometimes the heart whispers before the mind is ready to understand.

In love and presence,

Lucia