Cutting the Cord
Nov. 1st, 2011 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveerverFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.
I deliberately left typing this until today, because I wanted to see how what I decided I would do for Samhain turned out… interesting that I did… given the quote above, and what I found.
As part of my working for Samhain I decided I would read through my old 'workling' journal – the book in which I kept a record of all the thoughts and meditations and working I had pertinent to the path I follow… and I had an epiphany of sorts to answer a question I asked a while back, as to what 'else' could have so put me off from walking the path for so long.
While reading the last entries, the last several months when I clung to the path were filled with what can only be described as 'betrayals' – two major incidents, and I started to think that maybe to my mind, I had linked the pain of those betrayals with the 'path' rather than the people.
I have long since laid to rest my animosity with the people… not it is time to let go of what never existed in the first place… it was not the path that caused me such pain, but the behaviour of the people… the path is a part of me, and I choose how and with whom I walk it… or in the wake of a lighter heart – dance along it.
If you had a sad childhood, so what?
You can dance with only one leg
and see the snowflake falling
with only one eye.
--Robert Bly
carry less and try to dance on my crutches. For only while loving do the pains of feeling lighten.
I deliberately left typing this until today, because I wanted to see how what I decided I would do for Samhain turned out… interesting that I did… given the quote above, and what I found.
As part of my working for Samhain I decided I would read through my old 'workling' journal – the book in which I kept a record of all the thoughts and meditations and working I had pertinent to the path I follow… and I had an epiphany of sorts to answer a question I asked a while back, as to what 'else' could have so put me off from walking the path for so long.
While reading the last entries, the last several months when I clung to the path were filled with what can only be described as 'betrayals' – two major incidents, and I started to think that maybe to my mind, I had linked the pain of those betrayals with the 'path' rather than the people.
I have long since laid to rest my animosity with the people… not it is time to let go of what never existed in the first place… it was not the path that caused me such pain, but the behaviour of the people… the path is a part of me, and I choose how and with whom I walk it… or in the wake of a lighter heart – dance along it.
