Becoming Accident Prone
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 02:39PM 
I often hear a particular question being asked these days. It goes something like this: What is my gift or true purpose in life? Phrased differently I also hear: How do I commit to my soul’s purpose and actually make a living off of it? These are both great questions and ones that I continually ponder myself. Precisely because of this I know firsthand they are not easiest questions to answer. Yet when held mutually with rapt attention and lightness, they naturally unfold.
Discovering our soul’s work requires time, dedication and patience. The answers are often not straightforward or what we imagined them to be. It also takes patience, and a lot of it. As my partner Zayin frequently reminds me, much of the work we do to discover our inner calling or to peel back our layers really makes us more “accident-prone”- to one day just knowing, deep in our gut, what we came to do and how we are going to accomplish it. Our self-initiated process of healing is essential and makes us more accident-prone every day, but it also requires a particular communing with the universe- aligning our needs and desires with the universe’s needs and desires to make magic happen. Oftentimes it is not only what we want to do in life that is the important question, but also what we were made to do. I think this is why I often resist the language that speaks of creating abundance using mental manifestation as the main vehicle. Yes, it is important to have a vision and speak positive, affirming words to encourage us along in our journey, but not at the expense of also learning how to practice deep listening, embodied waiting, and allowing a natural gestation of our innate seeds. Deep listening and gestating are key component for accepting ourselves who we are instead of who we want to be.
Pregnancy and motherhood has taught me time and time again that when left to their own organic timing, things develop at their perfect speed. In only forty weeks a perfect little being blossomed inside of me. In another nine months, I feel in love with a new person and created a life-long bond. In all of this I discovered new edges, opportunities and possibilities in my personal and professional life that I could not see before. My years of personal transformation took on a whole new meaning- when it was no longer just about me, when I was asked to commune with the birthing of other-life, the growth of my embodied sense of meaning in life was exponential.
So to the friend that I heard pondering these very questions yesterday I would say: Breathe, look, and deeply see. All of your answers are circulating around you. Yes. Grab them one at a time. Put them on your altar, sit with them and let their image digest. Take time to do nothing but wait. There is no magical pill. There would be no meaning if there were one. Our journey through the material world is one of the most precious ones worth living. It will unfold at due time. It always does. This is what we came for.
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-Takeshy Kurosawa straight jeansI often hear a particular question being asked these days.