Opinions come from mind; Love arises in the heart. The first part of the awakening process engages the mind where ‘opinions’ flourish. Once here we want to take everyone on board the truth train with us, save everyone we can from ignorance (we become truly annoying to be around). As we progress through the stages of awakening, we learn to quiet our mind, we listen more, we observe.

The first thing to understand is that emotions are not permanent. Even those you’ve engraved with your initials… Letting them go won’t diminish you, in fact it’s not even a matter of letting them go, they left a long time ago. What you are experiencing is an echo, one that keeps bouncing of your ‘mind walls’ and with every reverberation another emotion (that is identical to the last) emerges. It feels to us like the same emotion, but it’s more like a long strand of emotional wool that keeps unwinding

The key is to not be attached to anything you currently believe to be true, allow the truth to take whatever form is non-illusory and if it doesn’t match your version of reality, let that be okay. You must be just as willing to be wrong, as you are to be right - or your experience will be one of great fear and suffering.

I have grieved for my Father, my Mother, my brother, and my nephew. While each loss felt different, I knew each to be like an energetic amputation that left me changed. It feels like you are smaller, sometimes my edges were jagged, sometimes they were soft and porous. Sometimes my body would feel unreal to me, lighter, nebulous, sometimes it would feel heavy, burdensome.