[You may be asking] Why, after years or even decades of working
on myself, meditating, praying, surrendering, and going to therapy
can it seem like nothing is changing! Why am I always feeling
disappointed? When do I reach the end, become fully awakened,
enlightened, totally healed! When will it change? Will the
longing ever be fulfilled?
on myself, meditating, praying, surrendering, and going to therapy
can it seem like nothing is changing! Why am I always feeling
disappointed? When do I reach the end, become fully awakened,
enlightened, totally healed! When will it change? Will the
longing ever be fulfilled?
...true 'transformation'...does not always conform to the ways we
thought it would all turn out. Many discover the 'great liberation'
in the realization that they are not who they thought they were..
thought it would all turn out. Many discover the 'great liberation'
in the realization that they are not who they thought they were..
...true 'transformation' isn't possible without tending to our
essential vulnerability and the entirety of unfelt feelings and
aspects of ourselves we have kept out of conscious awareness.
essential vulnerability and the entirety of unfelt feelings and
aspects of ourselves we have kept out of conscious awareness.
It is not possible for us to 'awaken' our live without befriending
all parts of ourselves, calling them all back home into the larger
field of what we are. It is an attunement to the entirety of what
we are...
all parts of ourselves, calling them all back home into the larger
field of what we are. It is an attunement to the entirety of what
we are...
Many of us have quite a lot of insight into our embedded patterns
[samskaras and conditioning] and "know" what we need to do
to 'awaken'. But - despite all the "knowing", fundamental change
can remain elusive.
[samskaras and conditioning] and "know" what we need to do
to 'awaken'. But - despite all the "knowing", fundamental change
can remain elusive.
At some point it might only be a turning of the heart that has the
power and beauty and poetic impact to soothe the cosmic exhaustion,
wounds and pain of an unlived life, where love is revealed to be
the ultimate medicine, which can penetrate the deepest layers of
our conditioning and felt sense of separation.
power and beauty and poetic impact to soothe the cosmic exhaustion,
wounds and pain of an unlived life, where love is revealed to be
the ultimate medicine, which can penetrate the deepest layers of
our conditioning and felt sense of separation.
We must tend to our turning of the heart through the fire of our
own direct experience - opening to our pain, our grief, our longing,
honoring the psyche and the soul. Mere [intellectual] insight
alone will not reveal the deepest layers... instead [they are revealed]
through awareness illumined from within by the heart, by warmth,
and by love.
own direct experience - opening to our pain, our grief, our longing,
honoring the psyche and the soul. Mere [intellectual] insight
alone will not reveal the deepest layers... instead [they are revealed]
through awareness illumined from within by the heart, by warmth,
and by love.
Matt Licata
from: A Healing Space
from: A Healing Space
~
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all
the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
~
Photo - Mysitc Meandering
Great quotes today. May your springtime be fresh and enjoyable!
ReplyDeleteThank you Barbara... And the same for you... It's snowing once again today...
DeleteSpring time in the Rockies :)