Start Here-Living from Love

If you are searching for a way to step onto the path, find healing, become present, live from love, what better place to start than with what you are experiencing right now? This busy mind, this back pain, this happiness, this emotion, this clarity, this confusion, this situation—it all has value and meaning. As Pema Chodrin says, “Start Where You Are.”

Do you feel love and connection right now? If so, expand on that, feel it, drink from it, let it consume you. Become the sensation. Drop deep into the intimate knowing of this personal experience of love as the doorway into the universal depth of divine love. Open the floodgates and let it fill you, form you and redefine you in its image. Become limitless in your flight of freedom.

Eventually you will reach another moment, a ceiling formed by your ego. Once again, “start where you are”. Feel its’ borders, its’ beliefs, its’ fears and grief. Accept this human condition of unmet needs and longing with compassionate curiosity. Give it room to breath, express, and release. This is the contrast your spirit craved and so decidedly chose as it’s next challenge. Within its contraction is the promise of a greater expanse and a deeper embodiment of love.

Limitation and pain is just as spiritual in it’s purpose as the realization and awakening that follows. Welcome both from the passion of higher meaning.  When we refuse to harden and lose trust in the process, pain brings a natural surrender into love.