We have these conversations for consideration at signposts along a pathway.
And the pathway is self-discovery, perhaps deepening our understanding of who we are, gathering our life together to make some sense of it in the changing circumstances that we find ourselves in.
We have many stages in our life, and what we look for is some overview, some long-term goal, some purpose and some direction that will sustain us through the changes, give us a direction that is deeper than the next event that we are experiencing.
One of the phrases we may often hear is going with the flow.
The image, of course, is the river returning to the source, but we're only looking for this particular journey where we come from the source and we return to the source.
And between those two points there is a flow of energy.
And along that river there are reeds and there are places where we can get stuck, places where we hang on because we don't trust the river.
​We don't trust where it might take us.

The time is always now. That is where our center of being is. Through that central self we can begin to see the world around us with a different view. The turning around is to feel within yourself an extra quality, an extra presence. We really have to go back to the simple system of being still and quiet.

We are encouraged to look outwards for our survival, for our pleasure, for our social interaction, many layers where we seek comfort, meaning and purpose.
But a human being also has a consciousness.
It's that consciousness that makes all things part of the one.