Can You Taste the Salt?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about how often we try to understand purpose from the shore; a place that’s dry and feels safe.

We look out at the horizon, again and again, hoping it will give us clarity.

But meaning has a flavour. And you only taste it when you step into the waters of life.

SALT - the blend of service, authenticity, love and trust - isn’t something we dig around for. At least, I haven’t found it by desperately searching for it.

It’s already in the water. It’s in the life we’re actually living, when we dare to get a little experimental and immersive.

There’s something trustworthy about a life that has been lived, not just thought about. The way a seasoned traveller, or a seasoned elder, carries a depth one can’t fake - a kind of inner salt that has come from contact with the world.

From risk. From love. From patiently paying attention.

My current 6 month purpose discovery program is coming to an end and people have gone far deeper than I ever would have imagined.

They have not navigated into deeper waters with more concepts and frameworks.

They have done it by being in brave and honest contact with themselves, with their longing, their grief, their imagination and what feels deeply alive to them. They’ve passed the salt around the circle by sharing their stories of being in wild nature.

To me, they ‘taste’ different to when we began the journey together. They have come alive in their very own grounded, weathered, salt of the earth type of way. It’s a deepening; a maturing; another beginning.

Can you taste the salt? Its everywhere.