This is an older writing dressed in new clothes, because it is very much актуális now. Please receive it with love.
Where did we lose the certainty that we were born into this soul-capsule to experience? Not merely to be participants in the events of our lives—nor their sufferers, victims, beneficiaries, or the favored. For that is only a surface-level encounter with the stages of our lives, as if we wanted to know what it is like to be soaked to the skin by watching the pouring rain through a window. In that play of imagining, there is no real experience.
Because this is a deep, physical, emotional, and spiritual process. Every stage matters, and none of it can be skipped. Many times we lose our strength, our perseverance, our faith, ourselves. We acquire wounds, we heal, we cause pain and we live through it. We expect, we resent, and we dissolve in forgiveness. We celebrate and we grieve. We wander, and then we return home into the peace of recognizing ourselves.
These processes are transformative, and at their end the deepest union with the moment takes place. But for this, we must be present with alert attention, an open heart, and unshakable courage. This is why we took on a body: to learn what is still malleable in us, what is unstable, what is uncertain, what is still fragile. It is important to say again and again that first and foremost it is not the events that need to change, but our relationship to them. We need to keep adjusting the sensitivity of our inner instrument of perception until all resistance disappears. Deep experience is complete surrender—only in this can it unfold fully. And then reality changes at once.
This is what we are learning now, together. We are experiencing how what we have known begins to fade and disappear. How what is untrue appears behind the events now unfolding and holds our lives captive—if we believe it. How compassion gains a new meaning when we are all participants in a shared story. How we begin to see through the illusion that keeps driving us to constant searching, chasing, achieving something. How we live our connection with ourselves, with others, with everything. And how all this shapes who we are.
We can wait for our familiar life to return. But it will not. And we can retreat into ourselves and pass the time with something, just to get through this unexpected, unplanned period as quickly as possible. But events are no longer predictable. If we relate to it this way, this opportunity is lost. Forever. We can see it: this is happening here and now. In the difficulties that are perceptible to everyone, the life-giving nectar of a new paradigm is hidden. If we give ourselves to this process, we may experience a world shedding a worn-out mode of functioning and renewing itself.
With love and supportive compassion,
Your traveling companion
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