Repeat slowly.
And let yourself arrive here.
To this moment.
Without carrying the weight of everything you left outside.
I want to share a question with you.
Just one question.
One that has stayed with me my entire life.
One,
I thought I have answered it more than once.
And one that keeps returning like the sea.
With a different tide each time.
Why did I come to this life?
No long echo.
Someone very close to me say.
I don't know what I am here.
I didn't answer right away.
I sat with her words.
Because that question lives in many hearts that keep it quietly to themselves,
As if not having the answer were a failure.
And it isn't.
It may be in fact.
One of the clearest signs that we are awake.
I have looked for answers in faith,
In teachers,
In books.
When I read Brian Ways,
Something shifted in me.
Not an understanding of the mind.
It was something in the body.
In the soul if that word speaks to you.
The idea that souls return,
That certain people enter our lives not to stay but to choose a path,
That freed me from so much pain.
When I was young,
I have a great love.
For years,
I couldn't understand why we had found each other if we wouldn't mean to be together.
And one day,
I saw the whole landscape.
That person had been a guide.
He had his own work to do and I had mine.
Once had been a wound,
Became gratitude.
But then I noticed something else.
I started wondering,
What is my life's mission?
And I started searching for it.
But the weight of that search exhausted me.
A mission sounds like something grand,
Something you cannot afford to fail.
One day,
I decided to let go of that word,
Mission.
And I breathed a little deeper,
Because the only thing I can truly touch is this moment,
This one,
The one I am living right now.
So then,
Why are we here?
I will tell you what I have come to believe.
Knowing that tomorrow life might move me again and I might change my mind,
But.
.
.
I believe I am here to keep learning.
To grow,
With stumbles and with grace.
To live when that time comes a little better than when I arrived.
And along the way to share moments of joy,
Of learning,
And of love with every person who crosses my path.
That simple,
That immense.
The challenges of this life are everyday ones.
And so are the gifts.
The instant when someone looks at you with tenderness.
The way light falls at a certain hour.
An honest conversation that reminds you that you are not alone.
Those are the precious moments.
And those moments come every day.
I invite you now to rest in silence,
Without searching for answers,
Simply noticing what stirs in you when you ask yourself this question.
Why did I come to this life?
You don't have to know the answer today.
Just notice how it feels to us.
Whether there is fear,
Whether there is relief,
Whether there is curiosity,
Whatever arises is welcome.
Take one more breath.
Deep and slow.
And when you are ready Gently return to your day.
Thank you for being here.
For asking yourself questions.
For refusing to settle for easy answers that in itself is already a path.
I'm Rev.
Lili O'Hara.
Stay in meditation as long as you wish.
Thank you for listening.
