I’ve spoken to a lot of people this week, and many people are feeling tender, fragile, nervous. Maybe it’s inherent to the time of year, that the hopes for the year are facing to the reality of what happened. I don’t know.
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Mark, this so hit close to home this morning. I, too, have been talking to people all over this last week around these themes. Just that I’m talking to them means I’m opening up my own vulnerability more than I have (commenting here is even breaking my HoB silence) but its more than that…its hard to put into words, but its like even though things are more raw and in the foreground, its OK. Even that it is OK because its coming to the surface. I’m noticing shifts coming like rapid fire where they used to take some sort of distress and upheaval to bring through, they are now just evaporating.
I received a beautiful image in meditation yesterday: imagine the inner landscape of barren snowfields. We call them snowfields because that’s all we’ve ever seen them as. But now, a thaw has come, and what before was seen as an endless frigid expanse of open fields transforms. The snow melts and green peeks through, the “fields” turn out to be lakes with the purest clean nourishing water that thaws to support an explosion of green, fragile, vulnerable new life. But, its in the vulnerable fragility that where once only frozen snow blew around, a brand new thriving ecosystem is taking root. The vulnerability quickens the adaptability that drives evolution.
Phew. I hope I got it down right, it was a complicated image to capture without going on for pages 🙂
Love + Light, all
Brandi
Brandi-How beautiful! I get it. And yes, letting our surface thaw to reveal what is beneath… thank you for such a gorgeous comment.
Thankya 🙂 Mark, I’m glad you liked it. It was beautiful- well, really it still is and I watch, in awe, at the changes rippling out through absolutely everything. I wonder how many more of my inner landscapes that I thought were fixed might have such beauty just waiting to be thawed out and returned to a state of creation?
Brandi – All of them. And all of mine. 🙂 If you’ve ever heard “Allah hu akbar,” it means “God is greater.” Not “great” but “greater. It means that no matter how amazing, beautiful, wonderful, upsetting, tragic… God is yet bigger/more than this. My teacher says “Don’t stop with anything.” Even when a beautiful new image comes in, once the initial appreciation and beauty sinks into us, we realize there’s even more. Even *this* is just a shadow of what’s true.
Mmnn. Yes, yes, yes :). I’m loving this process…after I got over the idea that to change or shift meant I was wrong somehow, (well really it was a matter of accepting wrongness to get to a deeper truth or rightness but anyway) I started even appreciating the sense of something slipping away. It means it’s getting ready to show me something else even greater and more true.
Another beautiful video Truth home-run spoken deeply from the heart… Mark – what you do on video is truly a rare and special jewel that I have not witnessed anywhere else. It is an honor to witness! 😉
Thank you, Amy. I’ve definitely been taking your recent comments to heart, and although (more) video was already in the plans for 2013, it really helps to get such humbling and amazing feedback from you.