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September 23, 2022 13 mins
Welcome to week thirty-six. This week, David explores two aspects of life mission - life mission coded within us like an acorn and we are part of a larger whole, like an instrument in the orchestra of life.
Excerpt:
Here in Caravan, I ask, is there a life that makes sense to live that does not include the reason we were sent? Can you conceive of choosing anything but your life mission?”
The man replied, “Depth psychologist James Hillman addressed  this question in his book The Soul’s Code. He referred to what he called  the acorn principle. I think he is saying the code of our life mission is  within us, and like the mighty oak tree is waiting to unfold over time in  the course of our life. He wrote that it is inherent in us from birth, like  the acorn, and isn’t created by our life in the horizontal world.”
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Hazrat Inayat Khan also writes that everyone has a place in the orchestra of life. Each of us is an instrument in this orchestra. Finding our place has to do with getting tuned up for our place in the performance of the piece. According to Hazrat Inayat Kahn, all things, even electrons, have their very specific, unique place in the scheme of things. Not only does each and every human being have their place in the Divine plan, with a mission that is unique to each, every electron also has a uniquely designed place in the plan of the universe.
The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 8, Life mission across culture and over time, p.94, 97-98.
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