Monday, March 7, 2011

Building a Cathedral

The following story has always spoken to me. Alberto Villoldo retells it nicely in his book, Courageous Dreaming, and I wish to share it with you.

"During the Middle Ages, two stonemasons were working in Paris on what would become the Cathedral of Notre Dame. A traveler, intrigued by their activity, stopped to ask the first on what he was doing. "Squaring a stone," he replied.

"I see," said the traveler. But his curiousity was still aroused, so he walked over to the other mason and asked what he was doing.

"I'm building a cathedral," reported the man.

Just like the stonemasons, we can choose to live our story in a way that's limiting or in a way that's empowering and inspiring. This is the first step to dreaming the world into being: understanding that our actions are occurring in more than one dimension or plane. We can be certain that the man who says he's building a cathedral has a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and power than the other man who's meriely squaring a stone-even though at one leve of reality, both are engaged in the same activity. The Notre Dame Cathedral took nearly 200 years to complete, yet in the dreamtime or the "all at once," the cathedral already existed, and the second mason in the above story could be part of a project much greater than he was."

Thank you for reading and Namaste! (The Light in me recognizes the Light in you!)

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