It's okay to feel down, flat, a bit numb, and to be unsure
about it all. It’s okay to forget who you are and why you have come here. Love
will take infinite forms, even those of confusion, uncertainty, and
forgetfulness, as it erupts here into the world of time and space.
It's okay for your heart to break when the forms of love
dissolve around you, for this is their nature. Coming together and then falling
apart, only to come together and fall apart again. Such is the dance of
the great mystery as it unfolds. The birth and crumbling of form is not
evidence of error or mistake, but of just how creative it really is here.
You need not shift your raw, tender unknowing into some
"higher" vibration, or apply teachings so that it will transform into
something else. It need not be let go, mended, or turned from, ever again. In
the naked embrace of the life that is within you, it will self-liberate and
reveal its nature.
Your shaky, open sensitivity is complete and pure on its
own. It is a bridge of light and dark through which you can connect with life,
with the sun, the trees, the moon, and the stars. And with the open, sometimes
broken, sometimes whole hearts of beings everywhere.
Stay close to your disappointment, the tenderness, and the
breaking of your heart, for this deflation is a special emissary of
reorganization. Rather than turn from it, shame it, dissociate, or enter into
battle, surround it with the warmth of your own presence. Intimacy, without
fusion. Go there.
In this way the heartbreak will be revealed to be what it
is, a hidden wisdom-guide of aliveness, come to remind you of something you may
have forgotten in the course of a busy life, and just how vast it is inside
you.
Art by Robert Jahns aka Nois7
My new book – The Path Is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You – is now available
The Way of Rest summer retreat – as of June 30 there are a few seats left
The Way of Rest summer retreat – as of June 30 there are a few seats left
