Originally posted on Serene Reflection:
You may have felt that “this only happens to me”. “Only I know how this feels.” But it is not true. As we peel away layers of our trapped emotions, patterns and limiting beliefs, we begin to see that there are many angles that contribute. While the details and intricacies will vary, there are common threads that unite our human experience. Love is universal.  As is suffering.  We make it more real, solid and dense by becoming identified with it as ‘me’ and ‘mine’. It is not only the apparent conditioning and environment that influences… Continue reading Individual Clearings and Collective Consciousness

This morning I woke up and as I was churning.. this insight emerged. And I posted it on fb.. —- Some very dear friends are grappling with love and intimacy. And I see in them a reflection of how I struggle with the same. Or better put, the sense of a me that is separate is where the struggle resides. I saw clearly – just now – that unless I can be utterly intimate with myself. Nakedly so. And see the rawness, the fears, the desires, the complete human-mess which lives in me.. there is a fat chance that I … Continue reading Your wounds are not your ‘faults’ …