Welcome,
Beautiful soul.
I am Paul and I'm so grateful that you've chosen me as your guide today.
When I was recently having a particularly challenging time,
One of my beautiful friends wrote me the most inspirational letter.
Her incredible words lifted me then and have continued to lift me anytime I read them.
And so for today's meditation,
I wanted to share her wisdom with you,
That it may offer you the same strength,
Courage and confidence that it did me.
Namaste.
It's okay in life to be in stasis for a time,
To have a moment of stuckness,
Non-flow.
Every person alive does.
It doesn't matter if it's 10 minutes or 3 years or 5 years or 10 years,
It doesn't matter if it's 10,
You will be unstuck again.
You will move again and live again in the way you are imagining.
It might not feel that way,
But you will.
Drop the guilt,
Better throw it off a cliff.
There is no one judging you,
Only an image you created in your mind,
Which is nothing but a ghost.
Try and stop comparing yourself to others because this is your unique path,
Yours alone.
No one else will understand or know it.
Its intricacies will reveal themselves over your lifetime and they are a kind of treasure only you will ever hold.
You are not racing with other people,
Not in work,
Not in success,
Not in yoga,
Not in building a shala,
Not in what anyone else deems as a right or productive kind of life.
Stop watching social media if you have to,
But everyone is only walking a different path to the same place.
All will arrive,
None are ahead or behind.
Look deeply,
See and know the appearance of any race is an illusion.
It is possible that something you never imagined before is happening now.
Would you believe with your entire being proved to be false?
You saw underneath the silk to something rotting and you couldn't look away.
Bravely you didn't look away.
Your entire foundation may be crumbling.
You have to restructure everything and build a new planet to live on,
Create another ground to stand on.
Or maybe not.
Maybe this is just a very difficult time of transforming your ideology with the addition of new truths.
Maybe you are learning to be flexible in ways you never thought you'd have to.
Maybe you are learning to be a better person in ways you never thought you'd have to.
Maybe you are learning this entire place is really a sea made of water and currents,
Never the ground and never solid in the way you imagined.
This is making you stronger.
Keep going.
Either way,
In this world sometimes everything precious is ripped from your grip.
Sometimes the ground you thought you stood on disappears and sometimes you are thrown into the air for hundreds of revolutions before you come back down.
You're creative and strong and brave enough to build a new foundation,
To imagine and create another life,
To be the one to catch your own self.
You can overcome anything you already have and you will every time you are a survivor.
Take a breath my love.
Take a deep,
Grateful breath and be so thankful for everything you have,
Everything you've created and everything you are.
This whole place and your entire being is a miracle.
Throw those bricks off your back and try to let everything flow.
Yes,
Sometimes there's going to be bumps and turbulence and doubts and questions,
But you're on your road,
Moving towards the life of your dreams.
Trust.
Try not to be impatient and try mostly to hold on to the gratitude and the awe of who and what we are.
At your being alive in this often tragic,
Sometimes terrible and always splendidly ephemeral and miraculous place.
You're a sacred orchid in bloom for a brief moment in time.
Embrace yourself,
Embrace the ride and release any tensions and worry into the wind of this inexplicable,
Ever mysterious spinning universe.
And finally,
Even on your most difficult days on earth,
It's still pure magic.
Tears and anger and passion and fists scraping walls,
Bare feet touching summer grass,
Your lips on cold,
Clean water,
Your hand buried in an animal's fur,
The sound of bees buzzing or morning bird song or the trash truck slamming gears.
It's the symphony of your heart.
Don't turn away from it ever.
Listen,
Open and keep going.
Namaste.
Thank you.
