By Annmarie Early

There is no path that can be walked again no matter how many times you walk it.  The same path that curves and rises.  The same steps that lead you forward around the familiar trees and dust sodden pathway.  You can try to take the same steps, placing your footing within the worn outlines of your boot or shoe. But, no matter how hard you try, the same path cannot be walked ever again.

This, too, is in your life walk.  The circumstances that swirl around you and the routines that guide and carry you may look familiar— even identical— but they, too, are different.  Illusion tells us that we are in sameness, the place we have always been, but that is not true. Each inbreaking moment is never the same. Each breath that carries you is now, for there is no other place that we can be.

It is from this place of illusion that the trance of life develops and opens sameness before us where we begin to relate to it, not living.  We think that we are in what has always been and we create from this place more illusion that we live from in our life experience.  Circumstances tell us what is happening and we relate to them in their storytelling of what is.  We name our experience as “ordinary” or “routine” or “painful” or “like it has always been,” but this is illusion narrating life to you.  It is not life.

Imagine the path that you’ve walked, either the literal one with footsteps or the inner path that carries you, and feel the impossibility of sameness.  There are different birds singing, a little less moss on the ground, temperature shifts, and a uniqueness that rises within you in this emerging moment as you walk the path that you have always walked.  You are within this moment and it has never been until now.

Allow awareness to guide you more deeply into each moment as you release the hold of illusion and the story that it creates.  Find your voice emerging from within the experience as you live the ordinary aspects of life in each awakening moment.  And, delight in the wonder of this co-creation, the abiding connection to all that is, as you continue to walk from within into the inbreaking of creation in each living moment of aware connection—your passageway to all that is—on the same path that you walk each day.