by Steve Marshall

Created on: February 24, 2009

To begin to know who you are, at first you need to take a risk on who you might be. All spiritual journeys begin with an initial risk, simply because at the beginning of our journey we think that we don't know who we are. We just don't know that we do know. A spiritual journey is always about discovering yourself and finding out and owning who you are and what you really do know. It is taking a risk on yourself, to be yourself.

How can we begin to explain the concept of risk spiritually? Is there such thing as a real risk, or is it really just a manifestation of fear coming from our fear, and from our current state of living from a level of less than total loving? Do we need to take a risk to take and begin our spiritual journey? Is it a spiritual risk or more a personal risk to move away from our ego and to accept ourselves as who we really are, and as our soul?

Risk is not a part of love, and yet it is a part of love. What does this mean? Simply that love contains all things within it. Risk though is more an attitude of giving fear to yourself, or of accepting fear as an isolated extraction from love.
Even fear comes from out of, and is a part of love. Love contains all things within it.

Living from complete unconditional love is never a spiritual risk and is the fullest of perfect living in being yourself. The personal risk of living from fully unconditional love is that you lose your personal control, or the seeming level of control that you think is coming from your lower personal self and your ego. This is a risk, because you now take a risk on finding something that is possibly greater than just yourself, and you also risk this then moving you away from who you think that you are being now.

The greater risk though is always just to do nothing and to stay as you are. The spiritual journey can therefore be said to begin or to start from risk, but it then proceeds towards certainty, full knowing and total loving, as you begin to embrace and to be the real you as a spiritual being, and not just you as a lower world personality and ego or physical body.

"What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing that you now need to do." - Anon

"It is only by risking.... that we really ever live at all." - William James, (1842 - 1910) American philosopher.

"The purpose of life is to risk living life more fully." Anon

Actually though from a spiritual perspective there are no risks in life, because there are really no coincidences. All is only ever in a state

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