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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 a myriad other machines in order to
provide ourselves with the many gifts of being airborne. Flying high in the
sky, we look down on the Earth 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. This 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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