Undying Passion: The Wasp and the Fig

Undying Passion:

The Wasp and the Fig

Love Notes

Brynne E. Dippell, Ph.D.

Posted on April 8, 2025

Photo credit: globalbizarre.com/what-are-the-akashic-records

Recently, I learned something I never knew before: how figs are born.

I was standing by a fig tree in the garden at 1440 Multiversity when I first learned this. I was listening to the resident chef as she explained that a wasp has to fly into the middle of a baby fig, which is actually an inside-out flower, and die in order for a fig to be born.

As the story was told, the fig emits an irresistible fragrance that compels the wasp to crawl inside at all costs, often breaking its wings and antenna in the process. Once inside, the wasp pollinates the fig, and in perfect symmetry, the wasp’s eggs are safely housed until they hatch.

The woman standing next to me slowly and dramatically pronounced, “So, the wasp knows its destiny is to die in this way.”

Each member of our small group turned and looked at her. We all laughed. Then we turned back to the tree.

I looked at each tiny fig on the tree differently, imagining a wasp inside every one. It was an awkward, uncomfortable feeling. I am both a fig lover and a vegetarian, so this now posed a quandary.

Then I thought about the carefully crafted relationship between the wasp and the fig, which led into a reflection on the nobility of what we are willing to sacrifice ourselves for.

We all have something unique that is our own, a divine purpose, something that only we can give to the whole. When I asked the Record Keepers about the wasp, they responded with tenderness and dignity:

When you surrender yourself to that which your soul yearns so deeply

for, there is no greater fulfillment than this.

Stored within the center of the chest, in the sternum, is the DNA that contains the divine blueprint for each person. There is value in spending time tuning in and tapping lightly on this area to evoke one's special calling.

Only by finding and living your soul's greatest passion can you feel completely alive.

What is your special calling? What arises from your soul so powerfully now that you would be willing to sacrifice everything for it?

Hit reply and let me know.  :)

To your greatest passion,

Much love,

Brynne

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The Sacred Moment of Resistance

The Sacred Moment of Resistance

By Leo Babauta | Source

Posted on January 18, 2025

Everyone has resistance to difficult tasks, conversations, and habits. It’s a moment when you feel like turning away from something … and then more often than not, you turn away from it.

This is a sacred moment. I’d love to share more.

In this moment of resistance, you’re simply feeling fear. You rarely recognize it as fear — it can feel like anxiety, dread, overwhelm, boredom, frustration. But at a deeper level, it’s simply fear.

If we go below the label of “fear” … it’s simply sensation in our bodies. It’s an experience. It’s the experience of being in the unknown.

This is a very human moment. It’s also a sacred moment, tender and vulnerable, when we are faced with possibility but also uncertainty.

What if we could slow down, in this moment, and just let ourselves experience the uncertainty, the unknown, the vulnerability, tenderness, possibility and fear?

What if we could breathe deeply, and just sit in that experience?

Then instead of turning away … we could turn towards. Find some gratitude for such a sweet, tender moment full of our humanity.

From there, we could continue to step into the unknown, and take action. Write a sentence, read a paragraph, make some kind of movement towards possibility. One movement at a time.

And we could even do so with love.

with love,

Leo Babauta

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