THE WALL AROUND THE HEART
Looking back, I can see how protected my heart was, how I had unconsciously built defenses around my vulnerability. It was understandable. I was hurt and scared. But those defenses, useful for temporary protection, had slowly solidified into me. They had become me, a permanent wall, in fact a prison. And the driver of some addictive and dysfunctional behavior.
The journey was, in many ways, the dismantling of that wall. I didn’t realize it at the time, I was so caught in the fallout. Only in retrospect can I see it.
Why am I telling you this? Because in my client work I see the same thing in almost everyone. It’s normal. It’s habitual. It’s endemic in society. And on the transformational path it has to be met, somehow or other. The call to open gets stronger as we get older, or else in disappears altogether, buried under the weight of who we have become, whatever the consequences.
It really is a profound journey to undo all that was done up.
So here are some poems anyway. x
The only antidote To the ills of the world Is to heal yourself Back to inner union And to radiate That harmonious vibration Into the collective energy field. --------------------------- The relentless wave of time Drags all beings in its merciless pull Except those rooted in the eternal Who watch the movement From the equanimity of timelessness. -------------------------- There are signposts, gates Doorways and invitations Voices that whisper ‘this way,’ And voices that shout the same words All of it there calling to you To accept the invitation To open your heart A little bit more, And to live honestly From that openness. ---------------------------- When your heart opens so wide It never closes again The whole universe pours in As though it has been waiting for this for eternity Waiting for you to simply open The love that is the totality Wants you to open into it. --------------------------- All this is held together By an invisible thread Woven by an unseen hand Unknown to mind Touched by love Known in the mystic’s soul. ---------------------------- Really there are only two choices To close into fear Or to open into love Yet most dance somewhere In between the two. ----------------------------- We are always at the beginning That’s the freshness of it. ----------------------------- Let us live boldly Tenderly, authentically Wisely and freely Let us dance with tears in our eyes And the beauty of life In our blazing hearts Tasting the sweetness Even as it vanishes into emptiness. ------------------------------- We are extraordinarily rich Imagining ourselves poor We are in paradise Convinced it is hell We are one Pretending we are two, and more We are all that is Thinking ourselves islands In the vast ocean. ------------------------------- I found the garden To be a living place Within me It had not left me I had left it And fallen asleep Dreaming of myself and others Full of projection and judgment Demented with desire and greed I woke up and found myself Once again in the garden I had never left. ---------------- Please do check out my online event next week. BRINGING LIGHT TO THE BODY: an exploration of well-being from a nondual perspective
Really appreciating your honesty and authenticity! 💜