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As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with
winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift
off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes
and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide
ourselves with the many gifts of being airborne. Flying high in the sky, we
look down on the earth that is our home and see things from an entirely
different perspective. We can see more, and we can see farther than we can
when we're on the ground. As if all this weren't enough, the
out-of-this-world feeling of freedom that comes with groundlessness inspires
us to want to take flight again and again.
Metaphorically, we take flight whenever we break free of the gravity that
holds us to a particular way of thinking or feeling or being. We take flight
mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience
new insights. This is what it means to open our minds. Emotionally, we take
flight when the strength of our passion exceeds the strength of our
blockages; the floodgates open and we are free to feel fully. Spiritually we
take flight when we locate that part of ourselves that is beyond the
constraint of linear time and the world of form. It is in this place that we
experience the essential boundlessness that defines the experience of
flight.
Taking flight is always about freeing ourselves from form, if only
temporarily. When we literally fly, in a plane or on a hang glider, we free
ourselves from the strength of gravity's pull. As we open our minds and our
hearts, we free ourselves from habitual patterns of thought and emotional
blockages. As we remember our true nature, we free ourselves from
identification with the temporary state of our physical forms. The more we
stretch our wings, the clearer it becomes that taking flight is a state of
grace that simply reminds us of who we really are.
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