Follow Your Name

“Follow Your Name”

Pay attention… pay attention
Be careful not to distract yourself from yourself
By focusing on the obstacles in your life.

Focus on the delivery of your medicine,
Not on the stories in your head
Where you recount your limitations and loss.

Do not indulge in such self-importance
As a way to avoid taking responsibility for your medicine
And the gift of healing you came here to offer.

You are the hero’s and heroines of your own story.
If you are not initiated into the
Bone memory… into the mythology… of your own life,
You will likely be living an existence that is not entirely your own.

And the life you know you must live
Is the one standing just a few paces in front of you
Looking back over its shoulder with eyes wide
Waiting for you to remember.

Apprentice yourself to yourself
Walk to the horizon of your own dreams.
The place where you live in the absence of story;
The place where the sharp edges of this unfolding moment Demands your full attention.

Where are you?             “I am Here!”
Who are you?            “I am this Moment!”

Pay attention… pay attention…
Do not walk in the world in such a way
That another gives you a name
You have no belonging to.

Written by Kedar Brown, January 2013