To truly come alive, let yourself die.
What used to be no longer has to be.
Travel light so you can travel all the way.
Continual fall. continual surrender. Continual dying. Continual living.
Continual falling to love.
Marvels await you in the sanctum of the heart.
Author: Manisha
The peak of the intellect and the beginning of wisdom is in the realisation that it cannot take you through any door worth entering. That it needs to be left behind.
This though cannot be willed into being. Nor can it be forced.
Pure dumbness is the way of love and life which inevitably happens when you embrace the pain of falling.
Who are you, you ask.
Well who am I?
Nothing & everything, but that's all too common, so to start and end with, I'm the dust at the beloved's feet, I'm the crown of the beloved, and well I'm everything in between. the beats of the heart, the sight of the eye, the voice that speaks.
Courage and faith are indistinguishable from each other.
May you have it each moment.
May you drop all your doubts about love and life.
May you drop all the self-serving philosophies you create to guard yourself or save pride.
May the boldness and beauty of your spirit be your guide.
You find something "too much" to the degree that you've tried to avoid it all your life which just means everything you find "too much" is just the beginning of the amount you exactly need for your own good/to get past personal drama that has always kept you from life itself.
Be not afraid. Stand firm and face it. You can absolutely do it.
Freedom from all fears centering around/owing to the "me" = love = right action
Love and wisdom are inseparable and cannot be when fear is.
Know this and remain surrendered to the truth of love. The gloriously ordinary rhythm of life, for you anyway are.
As long as one is identified with a sense of having experienced "problems", all imagined suffering will continue, and so will the mechanical conditioning.
You've never been bound, nor can you be any freer than you are now.
Surrender is the only way. you cannot do it, you can only see that it's always been right here.
All sorts of signaling are midwit and indicate a lack of courage to be accountable; a lack of faith so to speak. No exceptions.
In life, you are either all in or you aren't.
There's no halfway.
You can either keep trying to be smart to save your imaginary pride or be sincere.
Really as simple as that.
Literally 5 to 10 seconds of breathing (returning to the breath/HereNow) between stimulus and response will save almost everything and, most importantly, you from all stupid guilt, shame, regret, separation, division etc etc centering around or owing to the "me".
And with each thought and idea that comes to bother and influence you/your actions, always ask yourself
"is this really true" and "is this what i understand" and above all, ask again "is it really what it seems to be"?
Shine a light on your unconsciousness. To attention with/using attention.