Writing as a Spiritual Endeavour

“Pursuing your aim, your divine call to adventure is the pathway to living life more abundant. 

Everything can be better for you and everyone around you.”

Writing can take on a deeply profound form of meditation, one that you might go so far as to say offers a spiritual link to the divine. Sitting in quiet reflection, you await the guiding voice from within to reveal itself to you. It is the voice that reveals and guides you along the pathway forward, from idea to the word – a form of the deepest kind of expression, a process as profound as it is personal. 

Meditation is a practice that offers a connection to the inner world. Like any practice, it is one that can be developed and honed, allowing you to connect mind, body, and spirit at ever deepening levels. 

Honing a skill immerses you deeply in potential, which manifests through consistent and deliberate practice. It is potential itself that offers those practices you habitually engage in the opportunity to become increasingly layered with meaning the further you are willing to pursue it. In essence, the more proficient and skilled you become at something, the more potential it has to be a source of ever-expanding and ever-deepening meaning, and the greater opportunity you possess to influence your surroundings and those around you. The better speaker you are, the better you will be able to engage and share important ideas with a crowd. The better teacher you are, the more likely you are to make a positive impact on your student’s learning. The better leader you are, the greater your team’s chances of success. 

The best speakers, teachers, and leaders are those who not only work to raise themselves up, but who work to simultaneously raise everyone else around them up by sharing what they know, how they came about learning and developing skills, and by ultimately serving as a source of light, illuminating the pathway forward to what others could become. This is what all these people do: they are acting in service of others. The speaker serves the crowd, as the teacher does his students, and the leader their team. In serving others, in helping them become better, you help raise their chances of success in the thing they’re working towards. That ultimately circles back to you, as the individual, for what’s a speaker without a crowd, a teacher without his students, or a leader without their team? The two are inseparable. What this means is that in choosing the pathway to develop and hone your own skills, and in sharing these with others, you are walking the pathway to living life more abundant, for you and everyone around you. 

For you, perhaps, it is writing that emerges as part of your divine call to adventure. A practice improved and refined over time. A task once seen as a chore, a means to an end, to get a grade or finish a project for work, over time developed into something more – as a way to express your emotions and experiences. A means of externalization transformed into a means of engaging in the process of development and sharing those insights with others. It may have started with a sentence or two, every other week or so, but over time, you invested more time and engaged more deeply in the process. You instead became excited to sit down and explore ideas, enthusiastic at the prospect of being able to share them and how they relate at a personal level. 

Writing is a process that allows you to express these ever evolving and increasingly complex ideas in a manner that’s easier and easier to understand. Mind you, writing is always something to be improved. There are elements beyond your current understanding, and naturally, this creates a struggle to express them clearly. But again – and this is a deeply important reminder – that struggle is part of the process. The words resist you. The ideas remain clouded, just out of reach. Yet, it is precisely in wrestling with them that clarity is born. Each struggle is not a sign of failure but an invitation to deepen your understanding. 

You may have turned away from your writing from time to time, for one reason or another – perhaps it felt stale, there were other pressing issues to attend to, you lacked the discipline to continue with it, or you simply needed a break. But know this: it’s in the return that allows for expanding growth to occur – an ever enriching experience to engage in the adventure of your life and to share it with others along theirs. 

Your divine call to adventure awaits – will you answer?