While it may appear that this one is working against you, it comes bearing an invitation. Asking you to slow down. To listen. To remember what is most important, something that may have been lost in the dizzying projects of the inner and outer worlds.
Before you turn from the fire, look inside it. Step into the interior. With curiosity, breath, and awareness, offer safe passage for this one to rest from a long journey, to disclose and share its unique essences and qualities.
An old, orphaned, inner soul-piece is expressing its longing. One of love’s children is yearning to come home:
“Please know me. Please hold me. Please care for me. Please remember. Please provide sanctuary where we can dance and play and paint and draw and dream together. I am not here to harm you. Only to remind you of something vast and majestic and blue and gold… and of the revolutionary implications of what it means to be alive.”
Art by DarkWorkX/ Dorothe
Befriending Yourself - you are invited to join me and my friend Jeff Foster at our new online membership site at the intersection of spirituality, meditation, and depth psychology. Video-based teachings, live meditations, question-and-answer videos, and a moderated online support community.
The next retreat - The Deep Rest Retreat: Slowing Down and Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times - September 4-9 at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado - registration open
My most recent book – The Path Is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You – is available in both paperback and Kindle editions.
My next book, A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times, will be published by Sounds True in 2020.
