When a disturbing feeling appears, it is not evidence that
something is wrong with you, that you have failed, or that you are in need of
healing.
The wavelike appearance of intense emotion, heartbreak, and
the revelation of raw, tender vulnerability is not a sign that something has
gone wrong. But that you are alive. While in a moment of activation it is not
easy to see, the capacity to feel is sacred.
When you are triggered by a lover, a child, a family
member, or friend, an opportunity for integration has been presented.
While the heat, the claustrophobia, and the panic may be surging, you are on
the threshold. What pathway will you take? In the middle place, between denial
and fusion, a new world awaits.
Underneath the old stories of unworthiness, shame, blame,
and rage, life is longing to make itself known. It will never give up. It is
erupting with pure transformative energy and yearning for just one moment of
your presence and holding. At times, this energy will take form as sadness or
as despair. At other times as joy and rest. Still other times as rage,
jealousy, grief, and bliss.
Love is a shape-shifter and will never limit the forms it
will take in order to find you. Just look around and see.
As you travel on the path of the heart, you may be astonished
as your emotional spectrum expands. Maybe there was once a dream that it would
contract, that you would feel less, not care so much, and remain a detached
witness of it all. But love will always ask us to know more of its forms, more
of its children, more of its essence. Listen as a new call emerges, into the
richness of feeling and embodiment, and into the luminosity, color, and
textures of the sensual world.
In one moment of allowing ourselves to fall to the ground,
to feel awe at the feast that has been laid out here, we will see that things
are not always as they appear.
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
