Love As a Last Resort: The Sacred Heart and Awakening Into Divine Union ~ Event Thursday 7-8:30pm EDT
What's coming through...
Dear Friends,
I want to write from my heart to yours. I want us to be in the heart together. I want to show you what’s in my heart and see if there’s something similar happening for you. Or even something totally different. That would be amazing. That would be beautiful. I want to know what’s in your heart.
The crazy thing is that this happens without words—and I am a writer! How to do it? How to “talk about” the heart? How to talk about LOVE? We can only approximate. We can only point at the thing. Poetry is a nice way to go. Music, too. Art is about the closest thing we have to the language of the heart.
And yet…even that is insufficient.
I want to FEEL you. I want to know you by feeling. I want to know your “thoughts” and your prayers and your desires because I feel them as if they were mine, too.
This is what I have wanted all my life—to feel deeply and to be felt deeply. I think it’s what A LOT of us want. I think…this is a bold statement…it’s the answer.
Love is the answer.
I know this is not an original thought. That would be really sad. It would be sad if I was the first person to know this. Fortunately, this is universal knowledge. Fortunately, no one has a lock on this treasure. This is the answer that lies in each and every beating heart. And even the hearts beyond the veil (here on the eve of Day of the Dead) that are no longer beating, but still radiating love in the subtle planes.
This morning, I led a meditation. My friends showed up. We are getting closer and closer, the more we share ourselves and our sits with each other. We talk for a while about what’s going on for us, and then we sit in relative silence together. We journey together. I am the guide, but I am really just a vessel for the real guide, which is our shared heart space—illuminated by a Sacred Fire—the field we make when we come together for healing, for company, for wisdom, for peace. We are powerful together. You’re invited, too! I invite everyone here to join. Coming Home is the name of the practice and I do believe that’s what happens.
But, what I want to say right now is just that something came out of my mouth at the end of today’s meditation that felt very true and very important. Now, I lay no claim to this wisdom. I stand by Rumi when he said,
This poetry.
I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
I don’t plan the meditation now…it just comes.
We had been discussing distraction, feeling constantly interrupted, the pressure to complete meaningless tasks. We looked at how that keeps us from feeling inspired and being with ourselves and each other in a deep way. We looked at how we avoid Reality. How we even…thank you, Adyashanti…try in our small ways to argue with it. We discussed the fact that sometimes the situation—in our life, in the Middle East—can seem impossible. Someone voiced their despair, heaviness in the heart, the thought that humanity is getting worse, not better. We were all with that thought. And we were with the feelings of powerlessness that are so disempowering in times like these.
It was a far-ranging and slightly fragmented discussion…but, even that was perfect. These times can make one feel scattered and fragmented. That was the energy we were sitting in, so that’s what we sat with.
We went deep into the heart and connected with each other and the events in the world from there. I think we were looking for peace and maybe…answers. The answer I sought came towards the end and it sounded like this. This is verbatim what came through from the depths of my heart (which in that moment was connected directly into the Universal Heart and the hearts of those I was sitting with):
Feeling Love... We need our hearts to be open; available to give and receive love When the mind is busy or the body is busy We can forget the heart Then, the heart aches And the heart wants to be enlisted It wants to lead Engage, radiate, shine and HELP The heart wants to help. It can help. It might be the only thing that can help… Crazy…love is the last resort…right? We’ll go to LOVE as a last resort…
I thought…yeah, maybe we’ll finally go to LOVE when all else fails. Boy, I hope we can get there before it comes to THAT, but maybe we’re close. Maybe…if enough of us move THROUGH disappointment and despair and exhaustion and regret and hatred because we STOP arguing with Reality and SEE that THIS is not working…maybe then, we’ll look around for something else to try and we’ll stop avoiding the aching, heavy heart and instead, feel that pain as a plea, as a cry for attention…and we’ll go there and we’ll find the answer we’ve been looking for: LOVE.
Ah ha. THIS. This might just do the trick.
ONLINE EVENT Thursday, November 2 from 7-8:30pm EDT ~ The Feminine Path of Awakening: Shakti, Power, (Gender) Politics, and Practicalities
Almost 50 people have registered for the event on Thursday evening—mostly, but not all women. Men, this is for you, too!
If you’d like to read the original invite, here it is.
I’m thrilled by the response to the topic. It confirms my original impulse, the hunch I’ve had that it’s time to demystify and gather in collective communion around the precious, sacred, and totally NATURAL process of kundalini awakening.
I don’t yet know what content I will share, but I know the spirit in which I will share it: from the heart, full of curiosity and joy, with passion. I sense that this event may be the first of several in a series in which WE shape the content together. I want to know what you know and what you want to know. I’m also eager to contextualize this experience for these times, so while the traditional wisdom will be honored and referenced, this event will be of this moment—for us, by us.
I will also talk about how the experience of kundalini awakening is essential for the activation of the Sacred Heart.
The event is free. Please register here: