Welcome to the Edge

From a letter I sent today:

1) The X community is in the midst of a rebirth as it seeks to reinvent the container it works in.
2) The Y community is making and living decisions that can change its future survival.
3) I am choosing new directions and regrounding my purpose with tough decisions.

It seems to me that all three are at their respective edges - the limit of what is known, safe and dying; and what is unknown, risky and alive.

So I was amused when I read this this morning:

"In virtually every case, at the initiation rite's core is the boy's confrontation with personal limitation, with possible death, with inevitable fear. Here, he discovers the core of his true Masculine sexual essence, the part of him that really comes alive at the edge: his source of unshakable confidence in his ability to face - without collapsing - the real confrontations of life as well as his own limitations.

Such a boy, having passed through this initiation, can stand erect, whole, strong and open-hearted, knowing both the reality of his limitations and the reality of his deep resources. Even in the midst of fear, he has discovered that he has a tremendous capacity, far beyond his conventional assumptions, to live at the edge, or die trying. And because he has tasted his limitations, he knows that one day, he will, indeed, die, and so will everybody he knows. His confidence and Masculine power are grounded in this humbling reality, and therefore his strength is tempered with true compassion."

- From "Intimate Communion" by David Deida

Welcome to the edge.