Grace arrives in many guises. Sometimes gentle, sometimes fierce, sometimes enough to break us open.
Can you remain open enough to receive the blessings within what might also hurt the most to hear?
Sometimes the best friends we can hope for are the ones that will not shrink from authentic connection.
You don’t ever need to measure yourself as not doing well enough spiritually or otherwise just because your feeling down, scared or hopeless.
Our darker periods in life are a fuel for our inner quest for the light of consciousness. They are an integral and important part of our spiritual journey. They are as much a part of the divine design as the exquisite beauty of a flower is.
Spirituality is not about escaping being human, it’s about learning to BE fully human, with all our heart open to ourselves, with whatever feelings that brings. Including our hardest ones.
You are loveable no matter how bad you’re feeling.
Your soul is beautiful always.
There are different levels within us.
When we want to heal, we really need to listen to what’s going on inside us. We need to gain clear seeing and learn to differentiate between our mind’s egoic narrative and our deeper heart, our intuition, our innate knowing presence.
Meditation in essence, is the art of listening. Learning to listen deeply within ourselves and our experience.
The more we listen and pay attention in different ways, the more we hear.
For humanity to survive, we need to come together, we need to work together, we need to stop fighting each other and start fighting to save our planet.
What we focus on and what we give our belief to, is a big part in creating our experience.
Do you want to feel separate and divided, or do you want to recognise connection and togetherness?
Are we different on the level of our Soul?
We can’t be free when we are in opposition to anything within ourselves or our past.
The more we keep something hidden or secret, the more it builds the walls of an inner kind of prison.
With the light and power of consciousness and compassion there is no inner experience too dangerous to face.
“We are not here in this life to perfect ourselves, we are here to perfect our love’ – Jack Kornfield.
Being a human being can be very very challenging at times.
Be gentle with yourself. You’re allowed to feel all range of feelings in response to life.
If there is a pattern of having a victim mentality or a righteous mentality, then yes that is something to become conscious of and to learn to change, as we can generate a lot of our own suffering this way.
And still, no matter what, we all are worthy of compassion.
In order for any events to happen to you, you had to be here prior.
Our essential Self is like the canvas, events are just paint marks. They don’t change the nature of the canvas underneath.
No matter what happens or what ideas we might identify with, our true self remains untouched.
In the search for healing and inner peace we often want to discard our ‘rough stuff’ and yet it in the end we come to see that it is through our very human wounding and heartbreaks that we come to learn to open within love.
With patience and consistent intention, we can come to the place of encircling even our most hidden, seemingly unworthy parts, with loving kindness, warmth and inclusion.
It is our very human-ness that gives us the path to divinity. Not by getting rid of it, but by opening our hearts to it.
When times are hard it helps to hold an openness to the idea that everything is grace, even our most difficult challenges. That they are leading us somewhere on the path toward true freedom, if we are prepared to listen and go deeper.
No grit no pearl, as they say.
RATNA DYER 