The doorway to love is not locked, not sealed, not even closed. But we see through veiled perception, through false assumption and distorted belief. We peer through the ruts ground into us from childhood, through inherited ancestral burden and ultimately through a karmic lens.
Yet still we know love’s deepest as we glimpse it in a baby’s eyes, as the innocence and unconditional love of a pet moves us, as the natural world bestows its astonishing beauty upon us.
The doorway is not blocked. There is no doorway between this and that. The only thing that stands in the way is mind’s belief.
----------------------------- You are the doorway Through which love Arrives in the world No more waiting for it To arrive from somewhere else As if by magic It is up to each of us To walk in this world As though love were Pouring through us. ---------------------------- Water will take the path Of least resistance Yet never loses its essence. ------------------------- Dear life, whose intelligence I do not understand Thank you for teaching me To fall open in the face of closedness, My own and other people's. ---------------------- Grace is realizing that Whether resistance or surrender Is happening One is being carried anyway By something More vast than either. ----------------------- Seek only The kind of awakening That makes you more tender To other’s suffering Not more cold to their ignorance Of true nature. ---------------------- This is the shift, From me centered To no center, From driven by need To guided by love, From attached to self To surrender of self, From resistance To acceptance, From holding on To letting go. ------------------------ Find the place within That allows everything To be as it is and as it was. ------------------------- We are vast beyond measure Invulnerable and eternal Yet we are also fragile creatures Who break and hurt and suffer The path is to know both intimately Without preference for one or the other. ------------------------ You are not trapped by your stories Your stories are trapped by you Release them into the winds of time You have more presence than you know. ----------------------------
There is a great freedom For us and others When we realize That each being Has their own karmic destiny With its own timeline… It doesn’t mean we don’t care It doesn’t mean we can’t love But it means we surrender our ideas Of how others should be To a greater intelligence.
'I am delighted to offer this program for the first time. It will be a deep (and hopefully) healing gathering over 4 weeks to explore our relationship with the body. There will be meditation, discourse, and lots of time for Q&A.
My own experience of chronic illness, emotional healing and profound spiritual exploration has helped me to reach a deeper and more tender understanding of this most precious of relationships.'
“You are not trapped by your stories
Your stories are trapped by you”
Love this perspective, flips my usual thinking patterns on their head… 💜