The gift of Fire

The Gift of Fire

As our ancestors knew, fire is the living representative of the soul. It is not something separate from us, not something outside of life. Fire lives in every being, in all that breathes, grows, moves, and becomes. The gift of fire was given to humanity as a capacity for relationship — a way of being in dialogue with the fire in all life, and therefore with our own essence.

This gift was never about control or force. It was about listening. About sensing how life speaks from within, and learning how to respond. To live with fire meant to work together with an original power that does not need pushing or proving. A power that knows its way.

Over the decades, we seem to have lost this way of living. Slowly, almost unnoticed, we replaced listening with effort. We became skilled in willpower — a heavy, demanding force that consumes resources and needs constant feeding. Willpower can move things, but it does so at a cost. It tightens, strains, and eventually exhausts both the human being and the life around it.

The moment willpower loosens its grip, something else quietly returns. The original source of energy comes back online. Inspiration arises without being summoned. Healing begins without being forced. And without fanfare, a door to the future opens — not as a plan, but as a direction that feels alive.

Only when we learn to work with the gift that was given — the gift that is our birthright — do we become what our ancestors called a human being. Not a performer of life, but a participant in it. The more we ignore this innate fire, the more we find ourselves running into dead ends. Burnout, disconnection, and a sense of pushing life uphill instead of being carried by it become familiar companions.

The moment we begin to listen again, life responds. All life — because it carries the same inherited fire — starts to reshape our circumstances according to the great law of peace. Peace here is not the absence of movement, nor the avoidance of conflict. It is purposeful living in alignment with the soul. The soul as the quiet captain of your life, setting direction without command.

Slowly, but unmistakably, a reawakening is taking place. More people are finding the courage to listen again. And perhaps even more importantly, they are willing to learn again. Fire is always learning. It never settles, never stops growing. It moves as a continuous flow of life, asking not to be mastered, but to be lived.

Fire does not ask to be believed in. It asks to be listened to.

When we stop trying to control life and begin to cooperate with its inner intelligence, leadership becomes less about holding everything together and more about allowing what is true to take form.

Peace is not something we create.
It is what happens when we stop standing in the way of our own fire.