— LIEUTENANT TUVOK. FLASHBACK. 50126.4

This is the bottom line. This is what we’ve been searching for—or trying to hang on to, patch up, or improve on: A foundation on which we can structure our lives.

There are parables in almost every tradition about the dangers of building on shifting sands, about the need for something solid to support us. Rock, the ideal foundation, symbolizes the things we can depend on, that don’t change, that withstand the test of time. It’s not surprising that the disciple of a certain Terran Master was renamed Petros (meaning “rock”) when he founded what became one of the galaxy’s leading spiritual institutions.

Not that an institution can serve as a foundation. Our foundation must be made up of the same truths that the universe itself is built on. These are the truths that institutions and traditions can only conceptualize for us, then demonstrate how they apply in our daily lives.

Our task is to get down to the original bedrock, with help from those institutions and traditions—or through any other resource we may find during our search, not the least of which is that Piece-of-the-Rock within each of us.

And the miracle is, once we have that foundation, the structure on top practically builds itself.

I am restructuring my life, day by day, on the principles I am now learning. As I go boldly on my Inner Voyage, I anchor myself on Universal Truth.

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The above meditation is taken from Going Boldly on Your Inner Voyage © 1999-2004, IF Books.

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