The Ancient Way

[Beautiful Future - VI]

The “old way” will defy, deny, and decry what’s emerging.

But the “old way” is not the “ancient way”. There is a perennial wisdom that is ancient, preserved through generations, often captured in the stories of your grandparents and great grandparents.

It's embodied in millennium-old rituals.
Imagined through religious symbols.
Meditated on by saints.

“Old” is not synonymous with bad . . . if by “old” we really mean grounded, wise, and nourishing. That’s ancient. And necessary.

The beautiful future that we are both waking up to as it draws nearer and opening up to as it gestates inside us will seize the wisdom of the “ancient way” as we give ourselves to what is only now faintly coming into focus.

What is in you, that which is demanding more and more of your attention, will be beautiful. Should it last, it must also be grounded in the ancient way.