Have you ever had the feeling that life pushes you, sometimes gently and other times forcefully, toward something you have yet to understand completely?
This constant movement, this invisible current that goes through us and transforms us is the Becoming: the flow of time that invites us to grow, to let go and awaken.
Living this consciously can change our relationship with existence, turning each experience—even the most painful—into an opportunity for inner expansion.
The Becoming accompanies human beings throughout their whole lives. Sometimes like a destiny, like a dark and threatening shadow, and other times like a protective and hope-inspiring cloud that envelopes us like a horizon inviting us to arrive there. The difference lies in whether we have a transcendent vision of our life or not.
As we age, the influence of the Becoming accelerates, because the deadline for accepting death as part of life grows closer. Meanwhile, from our youth we have the possibility of choosing how we will traverse the fascinating road that is life. Whether to consider this journey to be a punishment due to the difficulties that arise—the threatening shadow—or to take advantage of them to find a means of inner transformation which can allow us to expand our consciousness in a continuous process that illumines our existence.
The awakening that transforms destiny
Our ancestral, cultural and biological heritage marks out our path if we are unable to take the reins of our destiny, making conscious the steps we take, the decisions we make, the conception of life we hold, accepting, with conviction, the transcendent destiny of our souls. When we realize, when we awaken to this reality, we need to adhere to a liberating method that allows us to traverse life with an ever-expanding horizon as we assess the results of our experience.
It is not easy to disattach from achievements, from what is reached with each step we take. If we don´t do this, we carry a heavy burden that ultimately prevents us from continuing to experiment and leaves us stagnating in a state of false success that tosses us into an inner limbo like old junk into storage.
The transcendent meaning of life, a new destiny on the horizon, is discovered in the moment of lucidity that suddenly illumines the heart and mind, and is expressed in an inner space that we learn to turn to each time we perform an act of introspection.
This is the place where the work of making life´s experiences conscious happens, whether stimulated by spiritual exercises or by circumstances, like those we face due to the simple fact of being alive. This work allows us to know ourselves and guide our existence through a path towards a more expansive consciousness.
Dialogue with the divine: meditation as a bridge
One of the tools for self-knowledge is meditation, oriented towards revealing the facets of our personality that condition the way of acting, relating and tracing the trajectory of our life.
It is an inner dialogue with the transcendent that acts as an expression of the divine and leads us to overcome limiting aspects of our being related to ourselves, those that are near to us, those that are part of our people, the world and the cosmos.
This process has no end and allows us to live the Becoming in a conscious way, identifying ourselves with each of life´s stages as if it was the only one, the final one. But we are able to reach the point of overcoming that stage and continuing on to the next, knowing that we arrive there with an increased and vital wisdom. The Becoming thus ceases to be a heavy burden because of time’s inexorable passage, since, little by little, we realize that we are immersed in the essence of that time, and that living in the continuous present is freeing.
A drop in the ocean: Shared Becoming
Silence plays a fundamental role in our perception of Becoming as liberation. By opening the way to this inner space, it allows us to find the divine presence within us. We are not talking about becoming self-absorbed in order to experience a selfish and personal joy, but expanding that Presence with a sense of participation through an expansive, participative and egoente consciousness.
Living consciously the passage of Becoming allows us to not just offer the world our process of unfolding, but also to be part of humanity´s evolutionary process, propelling its transcendent and liberating destiny.
When Mother Teresa of Calcutta was asked how she understood what her contribution to humanity was, since it was only like a drop of water in the ocean, she answered that, without that drop, the ocean would not be complete.
Adhering to living the Becoming in a conscious way is connecting with one´s own process of unfolding and offering that liberating experience to humanity.
