“Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and there clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach something? That’s like me. I’m trying to find something out there beyond the place in which I have footing.” Albert Pinkham Ryder, as quoted by Mel Schwartz in The Possibility Principle.

When I read this quote, it struck me deeply. I knew he was speaking of the Divine Urge, which I’m sure many of us have experienced at times. It is that deep longing and pull toward something greater than what we are living. I have felt it strongly for some time now. I wonder how to drop off that branch into the unknown. I realize that I must start by doing it in mind. So many times in the past, I’ve made that drop before I knew myself, trying to find something and not being ready emotionally, spiritually, or mentally. Instead, I was just trying to escape from where I was, only to find what I was trying to escape from waiting for me out “beyond the place in which I have footing.”

So, how do I drop into the unknown? For me, it is a sense of knowing what exactly it is I want, and then being willing to let go of what I think I know to find it. I do not believe we can find it without that letting go. I mean, think about it. If it is something new, then it wouldn’t be built upon the past.

If the quantum field’s nature is uncertainty, unlimited potentiality, and entanglement, then that would mean that as I accept uncertainty, realizing that I am swimming in a sea of unlimited potentiality, because of the law of entanglement, I would attract that which I require. With just the power of my intention backed by feeling, I would break down the barriers to a new state of being. I wouldn’t even have to travel anywhere else, physically speaking.

Today is the day to begin by ending the repetition of old stories of discontent. What do I want? How do I want to live? In the worst of times, people have shifted their lives and brought miracles into the world. I remember my friend who was hired by a well-known airline the day after September 11, 2001. When the world of air travel was shut down due to that terrorist attack, my friend’s intention and longing to be a flight attendant were not held back. This is how powerful our Spirit and the Law of Intention are.

Here is where I begin. Every morning, I wake up and reaffirm my sense of self as Divine. I give gratitude for the day before me. I project for the Good that the day will hold. I bless my life and all my relationships. I know that I am guarded, guided, protected, and directed. I also make sure I meditate for at least 30 minutes and give my Spiritual Mind Treatment to the Universe. Then, I drop off that branch into the unknown. My spiritual legs might be weak at first, just like a butterfly falling out of its cocoon. That’s okay. Trust in the unknown and a willingness to look for that which I say I want instead of rejecting what I don’t want will be my guiding light.

Should we try it?

Love and Aloha,

Rev. Dr. Rita Andriello-Feren, Author and Spiritual Leader of CSL Kaua’i and the Institute of Magnificence, Consciousness Coach