Today on Live Awake,
It's time to remember now your stillness.
And close your eyes now.
Be still and listen.
Open your ears in presence.
Open in center,
In spirit,
In self.
Follow this gentle inhale and this gentle exhale.
Allow your breath to pull you down into your body,
Into this vessel,
This creature of the heart.
The wave of relief,
The softening,
The friend you meet here.
Is your tenderness.
Is your calm and still authenticity.
Your place of origin and earth.
Don't be afraid of this part of you.
Bring yourself completely to this force living quietly within you,
Deep within your non-doing,
Your essence.
Surrender your resistance,
Your wanting to close.
You are safe here to fall into a state of rest that can only be found within you.
I too fight in arriving here.
I too resist quieting and becoming still.
I too spend entire months and days avoiding my heart and the goodness that dwells purely within me.
Why?
Because I was convinced once,
As each of us have been,
That this here,
In this simple place we are sitting,
Was not enough.
That this place here will be hurt if exposed.
That this place,
This person here,
Must be preserved and protected for fear of being taken from us or harmed.
In all of our preciousness we have grown hard and distant,
So to not face the vulnerability of our being,
Of our experience.
In all of our preciousness we have left this place,
This feeling heart behind.
We have forgotten to visit,
To create space,
To slow into body and natural rhythm for fear of being laid bare,
Susceptible to being seen as we so naturally are.
But I'm sure you can feel each fiber of you trembling,
Each fiber of you coming into focus and feeling,
Each softness allowed breathing you more alive.
This is the power of our tenderness,
The power of our vulnerability,
The power of our simplicity.
It's time to remember now,
This place gives us breath,
Opens cold and dark rooms,
Brings light,
Brings heart,
Brings truth,
Brings each human's truth to the surface.
If we could each remember to come down into the soft spot of this place more often,
What a world there would be to behold.
For in visiting this place we come into radical alignment with the divine.
We quiet war,
We free each burden and pain,
We become radiant in compassion and forgiveness.
For here in this place a chorus of love ignites our being into prolific function and force.
It's time to remember now,
Dear ones,
As a collective whole,
To slow down so we may feel as we are meant to.
So we may remember that we are tender,
Vital,
Alive and governed by love and kindness and heart.
It is time to remember now,
This sensitive space of origin is where you come awake,
Where you come to meet the light reaching to guide you through your life.
Be still and listen,
Dearest love,
Let the quiet truth swell upon you.
Let us remember that we are tender,
Vital,
Alive and governed by love and kindness and force.
Let this tender place come out from hiding so to breathe you and our world more alive.
