How do I feel about it? Sad? Depressed? Anxious? Peaceful? Relieved? Joyous? Free?
All of the above? It really doesn’t matter how I feel as long as I do feel.
During these last four years of full time inner work I have learned that all our fears are simply unfelt feelings. Only you can let them in, process them, learn from them, then surrender them. No one else can feel your emotions for you, speak the words you will speak, or write your Truth. We are Truth.
When you are on the path you can hold more than one emotion at any one time. You will learn to hold a multitude of emotions at once and know how to navigate and communicate them, when the time is right.
You will be blessed with Grace, as if touched so delicately by a divine feather. Once you feel, your life will never be the same again. Yes there will be dark days, but yes there will be blazing dawns, radiant days, and glorious sunsets. You cannot have one without the other. Being open to this is to live. Death teaches us lessons on how to live. It is in the darkest cave that you find your treasure.
My mother has returned to her soul. The soul that life caused her to quieten and become someone who wasn’t her real Self.
Here is my mother as a little girl, before the world got to her: Before the world tried and almost completely succeeded to pull her soul out of her
Here is my mother on her wedding day with her younger sister who is with us for the funeral tomorrow
Perhaps I will never know why your soul went to sleep soon after this photograph, before I was born, 5 years later. It doesn’t matter.
I am at peace as a result of those two conversations that we managed to have recently, despite you being so ill, when your younger Self, your soul, woke up and spoke from your heart. You see, the world never managed to fully remove your identification with your soul. It just took you a lifetime to realise it. But, no-one helped you. You had no guide back to you. Not until I woke up.
Our lives are unwritten. Every day is a blank page. There is a hero inside you: Your soul. Your soul is your saviour and that saviour is you. We are conditioned to not make mistakes or to be afraid. Anyone who has never made a mistake is not truly living. Live your life with an open heart and a soulful soul. That’s how heroes roll. Life is a dream-like rich tapestry once you awaken from the nightmares of the illusion of conditioned thought. Every moment is a miracle. Everything is exactly as it is meant to be. The rainbow is shining on you. There is nowhere to go other than right here and right now.
As your favourite song by Louis Armstrong, which we are playing at your funeral tomorrow, says: “What a Wonderful World.”
Louis Armstrong and 'What A Wonderful World'
My job, my life, will come from this place of BEing. As Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist and spiritual Master, wrote "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere BEing." I will see the soul in people that they cannot yet see for themselves, for they have forgotten who they truly are, and I will hold that space, and create that environment, until they can remember, together. This is how we cut through melodrama and illusion. Our minds will quieten and our hearts will open. You will begin anew, and rest in awareness. Everyone you meet will experience that love within themselves. I was able to do this with you, and you were quite the challenge. Thank you for the lesson.
Adieu et au revoir
With my love
Namaste
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