THE POWER OF UNDOING

Or Falling Open

In my life I have found
The greatest enlightenment
Has come, not from finding
But from undoing
It has been the unravelling of the false
The undoing of the knots of conditioning
The total surrender of the righteous self
That has brought the greatest gifts and wisdom

A deep humbling took place
At first it hurt like hell,
And I crept away to lick my wounds
But slowly that humbling became grace
And a deep and pervading openness
Fell upon me
The kind of openness that allowed everything
And allowed others to be as they are
I stopped interfering in life
Or waging war on my experience

It felt completely natural and required no effort

All I had really done was remove the false
Like removing the shell that seemed to offer protection
But had, over time, become a prison

So why do I tell you this?
To give you heart and strength on the path my friend
It may seem like you are falling apart
When all these bits of you appear to be undoing themselves
But as my wife so beautifully said

You are not falling apart
You are falling open
And there is no greater blessing.

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