jackshoegazer | I remember. (Reply)

The purpose of the Great Work is to follow your Path perfectly. In the movie K-PAX, Prot tells us that the Universe is continually, forever, expanding, then contracting upon itself. Every time it expands, we live the same life over again, making the same choices, the same mistakes. So we should get it right this time, because it's the only time we get. The theme is the same in Vonnegut's Timequake. In Good Omens, Adam says that maybe religions should stop telling us it all gets sorted out after we're dead so that maybe we'll start trying to sort it out when we're here.

So it's this I've been pondering all morning, my retrograde reflection. Yes, we may have life after life to get it right, but I've always felt that this is my one life and I have to get it right this time around. There are no second chances. This, I think, is why I have been so obsessive about doing what I feel I need to do and being very uncompromising in my life decisions, following the signs the Universe sends my way.

Prot tells us that our task is to be here and be prepared for anything that falls in our Path. He's right.