TRANSFORMATION TAKES TIME AND TRUST
Although truth can be realized in an instant, and awakening has no time in it, the living of it is not the same and IS subject to time. This world is dense, we are dense in our energy systems, emotion itself has a denseness to it. It takes time for the light to penetrate the denseness of matter.
And that transformation doesn’t come without pain. As the old breaks up, whether it is physical, emotional or mental, it tends to have an almost visceral impact as it releases, or as we release it. This causes us pain and brings up fear.
But the pain of letting go is very different to the pain of holding on.
You don’t have to know Where you are going To be fully where you are Presence is its own destination. --------------------------- Be a master of your mind Not a slave to it See its incessant nature, Its relentless mechanism Release it By realizing it is not who you are You are wordless, silent presence, the ocean of being, vast beyond measure, And mind is a part of that, but not the master of it. --------------------------- Don’t get so lost in your self You forget the grace That brought you here And the miracle Of your existence. --------------------------- When we become too domesticated Some ancient fire within starts to die Or else becomes an angry shadow Dance, sing, go into the desert Or find a wild wood Scream your heart out sometimes No one really cares They all want to do it too. ---------------------------- One soul remembers the light While another languishes in the darkness No one knows why anyone is the way they are... If you catch a glimpse of inner freedom Give thanks and don't say you should be further down the path Be completely where you are There is grace in this. --------------------------- If you face your demons They become butterflies If you meet your darkness It dissolves into love If you cease your resistance It reveals the truth of you And if you stop avoiding life You fall into presence. ----------------------------- We are light beings Having an endarkened experience Forgetting the light We flounder and scramble in the dark Searching for it But we are already are it It’s not a finding It’s a remembering A deep, profound, remembering. ----------------------------- It takes courage To undo the knots That tie us up But that bravery Forges us into something More true than we were. ----------------------------- When the unbearable becomes bearable The broken becomes unbroken The separate becomes whole And the unloved and unlovable Become love and loved We are at one With what is. ---------------------------- Heart and soul burn for love’s freedom Mind takes that burning And says, ‘I know what to do!’ Many years may pass by Before we realize It didn’t have much to do with mind In the first place. --------------------------
My family. We are deep in the snow of the Santa Fe Foothills.