Spiral of Life

The Circle of Life. How often do use that concept to describe the beautiful in life as well as to alleviate the pain of life's sorrows? It seems even the ancient Greeks reflected on the Circle of Life. A friend recently sent me this beautiful quote from a Greek philosopher who lived around the 6th century BCE:

"Out of life comes death, and out of death, life,
Out of the young, the old, and out of the old, the young
Out of waking, sleep and out of sleep, waking
The stream of creation and dissolution never stops."
Heraclitus

But I believe life is not a circle. I believe life is a spiral. I believe we move through iterations of life with a plan, with a purpose. As we spiral we move towards something rather than just circling through endless repetitions.

Each turn on our eternal but not endless spiraling pathway moves us closer to the center, closer to universal consciousness, closer to truth, closer to God, closer to love.

And so this month we begin another trip around the sun, following another turn in the spiral of our lives, moving ever closer to where we began.