When we can be in deep solitude without fear or resistance or the need for distraction, we can know we have done a lot of healing.
In the wide openness of conscious solitude, we come to experience the truth of the interconnectedness of everything and the one consciousness that expresses itself in myriad forms. We can paradoxically be alone and yet a part of everything at the same time; individual and yet not separate.
Whole.
This is our heart, this is the reality of love.
This is who we are.
Fears arise. Observe. Create space inside to check in, to identify, to inquire. Are they founded or are they self generated? Is there actual reality inside them? Or is the mind projecting a distortion.
Of course if there is reality: lack of safety, abuse, dishonesty etc, then remove yourself.
But where this is not the case, endeavour to stay conscious to your mind’s behaviour.
Allow yourself to stay open to life, to love, to goodness and trust. To knowing of abundance and peace. We all want these same things.
What we focus on grows.
Focus on the love, the trust, the connectedness, the silent presence.
Here we are always home, safe, loving and oh so so loved ❤️
We need to learn to allow all sides of our experience. When we can be with the hard stuff without judgement, without resistance, we have more freedom. When we can enjoy the good stuff without grasping and holding, we are more free.
Life keeps moving.
Love is not a concept. It is a way of being, an action, a connection inside that moves us to express ourselves from the truth of who we are.
When we move from love and are moved by love, we are home.
We are much more than any thought we have about ourselves. We exist whether thinking is happening or not. We can observe our thoughts, therefore any idea we have about who we are, we are here before it.
Learning to trust life..
We see that even in the falling away of things, there is beauty and grace available.
In presence we can free anything, any emotion.
We can free ourselves.
Today on a story post I asked..
Where do you provide space in your day to find moments of beauty?
We live our lives and then our time has passed and gone. How much focus have we given to creating a life where we are present and feel connected, where we are in touch with nature, with peace, with grace, with beauty? How much time have we consciously given toward feeding our soul and the soul of others? What are we making most important and of value to us day by day, moment by moment?
This is not something I’m suggesting to judge yourself on if you have room for improvement, rather to just be reminded we have power in our choices.
Where we place our attention is where we are spending our life currency. And each moment cannot be bought back.
Consider.
Choose.
Explore.
Move past resistance and discover anew how magic can present in the most unexpected and varied forms.
Life is for love and for living.
Everybody’s path of awakening to their heart center is different.
Some people come from the north, some from the south, east, west, southwest, northwest and every single angle of a degree in between.
People from the north say look to the south for the sun. People from the south say look to the north, the south is full of damp and shadows.
Then add timing into the mix and we have life variations add infinitum.
We can see parallels and similarities and our own projections within others, but we can never really understand another’s experience.
This is why we can never really give advice, pass judgement or even have an accurate opinion on anyone else’s journey but our own.
Only when we are in the heart, our awareness center, is there no separate direction or movement to come from or go to. There is only oneness everywhere we look. There is no journey here, no journeying and no separate journey-er.
Here we are all the same.
And yet paradoxically, all at the same time, we all go through our own individual life process. How beyond weird and hard to fathom is that!
Distinct but not separate.
Recognise our natural human failability.
Be kind with yourself. Be patient with yourself. No one ever learns anything without also finding out what doesn’t work.
Start with giving yourself some grace and naturally you then find it will come more easily with others.
RATNA DYER 