Endings and Beginnings
Feb. 21st, 2011 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
We can return and begin again by facing ourselves in this way, we can go below our hardened ways to the soft impulses that birth them. Instead of breaking the bone of our stubbornness, we can nourish the marrow of our feeling unheard. Instead of breaking the bone of our fear, we can cleanse the blood of our feeling unsafe. Instead of counting the scars from being hurt in the world, we can find and re-kiss the very spot in our soul where we began to withhold our trust.
I've been coming to a conclusion over the passing of the days in the last few weeks as I have been undertaking these deep thinkings and observations. As I've been possessed of a desire to find myself, to be the person I once was, (and will be again), and yet I've been unable to do that, I am my own blockage, and to remove that I need a cleansing, a rebirth...
...to begin again.
The glassblower knows:
while in the heat of beginning,
any shape is possible.
Once hardened, the only way
to change is to break.
We can return and begin again by facing ourselves in this way, we can go below our hardened ways to the soft impulses that birth them. Instead of breaking the bone of our stubbornness, we can nourish the marrow of our feeling unheard. Instead of breaking the bone of our fear, we can cleanse the blood of our feeling unsafe. Instead of counting the scars from being hurt in the world, we can find and re-kiss the very spot in our soul where we began to withhold our trust.
I've been coming to a conclusion over the passing of the days in the last few weeks as I have been undertaking these deep thinkings and observations. As I've been possessed of a desire to find myself, to be the person I once was, (and will be again), and yet I've been unable to do that, I am my own blockage, and to remove that I need a cleansing, a rebirth...
...to begin again.
