AN INTIMATE INQUIRY INTO HEALING

What is true healing? Is it the absence of pain, the resolution of suffering, or the restoration of wholeness? True healing transcends these definitions. It is not a destination but an ongoing process—an inquiry into the nature of our experience. At its heart, healing invites us into an intimate relationship with all that arises, a journey that unfolds through allowing, intimacy, and love.

The End of Resistance

Healing begins where resistance ends. So often, we resist pain, fear, or discomfort, believing they are obstacles to overcome. In reality, they are doorways to deeper understanding. By allowing our emotions, wounds, and challenges to exist without judgment, we dismantle the walls of resistance. Allowing is not passive; it is an act of courage that creates space for transformation to take root.

Intimacy With Experience

True healing asks for intimacy—not only with the joyful but with the raw, tender, and uncomfortable aspects of our lives. This intimacy is an invitation to meet life as it is, without the filters of avoidance or control. In embracing our experience fully, we dissolve the illusion of separation between self and life. Healing becomes not about fixing but about deepening our connection to the present moment, where life reveals its innate wisdom.

The Power of Love

At the core of healing is love—not as sentimentality, but as a radical acceptance of all that we are. This love is the essence of presence, a force that holds us tenderly as we face our shadows. Through love, we discover that even our wounds carry the seeds of wholeness. Love transforms pain into wisdom, fear into trust, and division into unity.

An Ongoing Inquiry

Healing is not a straight path but a spiral that continually brings us back to the present, inviting us to surrender deeper. It is an inquiry that asks: What happens when I stop resisting? What arises when I allow myself to feel fully? How does love reveal itself when I meet life with openness?

In this inquiry, healing becomes a profound meeting with the essence of who we are. It is a journey of allowing, intimacy, and love—an ever-deepening relationship with life itself.

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As a great tenderness
Did come upon me
Everything fell in
And transformed into
The love it always was.

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When I looked for myself I found emptiness
When I found emptiness I discovered love
When I embraced love I realized God
When I realized God I found myself.

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You become aware
Of your own impermanence
And the impermanence
Of all things
At first it causes a great fear
Then a great softening
Followed by a great love
This is surrender
And that surrender
Is grace.

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Love weaves us into being
And holds us on our journey
We think we are alone
Unaware of this secret beauty.

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I am the sky, the cloud,
The earth and the rain that cries upon it
I am the little bird that sings its song of the dawn
And the coyote that calls in the fading light
I am in each death and birth
I cannot be contained yet I rise as form
And when I die
I do not die.

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On the journey
You will arrive at a point
Where there are only two options
One is to keep resisting your experience
And the other is to deeply accept your experience
Because you have realized
Experience will never go away
As long as you are alive
And that’s it, checkmate
The end of the road.

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You are but a fleeting ray of light
In a vast mysterious sky
Love everything
While you can.

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By and by
you realize
it is all in the hands
of the divine
and you never had 
as much control
as you imagined
but what subtle impact of your will
you did have
you gave to love
or to the resolution
of inner division and fear
the rest was always
in the hands of God.

Image from 2021

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