I recently began a project called The Tao of the Brokenhearted. Many of you who have read my article on Witch magazine may have noticed it mentioned in the author description. I think of the project as an honest distilling of my truth - which is the truth of the heart; the truth of the collective heart of the earth and the remembrance that each of our hearts is this collective heart. When we heal our broken hearts, we heal the heart of the whole world. A world filled with more feelers is a world full of alive, activated and authentic people. I think of this book as an guided encounter with one's own heart. A liberation from the suffering caused by ignorance.
Here's an excerpt:
"There is a desire that is present within you. It is a hunger, a yearning, for a deeper connection.
You might call it your heart, you might call it your subconscious, but we know that it arises with sensation and is felt in our bodies.
We try to fill it with foods, substances, artificial or toxic relationships, entertainment, violence, porn, and many other kinds of addictions. But deep down, they leave us more empty and have us running around in a vicious loop, always chasing our humanity but never able to quite reach it. It feels like just getting farther and farther away, because life seems to become imbued with a quality of desperation so quiet you can barely hear it and maybe won’t even admit to yourself, much less anybody else.
But you know the hunger is there…
You already know the spark of possibility for more exists within you. Each and every desire is a sensation that arises within our bodies and when we get quiet and allow ourselves to feel them, we open spaces in ourselves for healing. The process is not comfortable, it may not even be pleasant, but once you are alive, you don’t want to go back to being asleep. You want to feel.
The world’s religions talk about salvation, redemption. They talk about their way being “the way.”
What if there was only one way, but not in the way that we think?
What if the Way encompassed every way?
What if the Way was something we already had built into us?
What if there was no outside redeemer or savior or Messiah? What if there was only, ever, you?"
This is the offering I'm creating for you. It has taken me a long time to get here. I've tried, multiple times, to dsitrill my truth into a readable format to guide others into the truth of their own souls. It's been hard. It was hard mostly because I kept trying to abstractify - I was trying to say something that I thought others would like...not what I really needed to say. Now, I'm saying my truth whether it seems nice or not. I hope it touches, resonates with you so deeply that you never want to be the same again. I'm all about creating this world as I WANT IT TO BE. Who's with me?
Here's an excerpt:
"There is a desire that is present within you. It is a hunger, a yearning, for a deeper connection.
You might call it your heart, you might call it your subconscious, but we know that it arises with sensation and is felt in our bodies.
We try to fill it with foods, substances, artificial or toxic relationships, entertainment, violence, porn, and many other kinds of addictions. But deep down, they leave us more empty and have us running around in a vicious loop, always chasing our humanity but never able to quite reach it. It feels like just getting farther and farther away, because life seems to become imbued with a quality of desperation so quiet you can barely hear it and maybe won’t even admit to yourself, much less anybody else.
But you know the hunger is there…
You already know the spark of possibility for more exists within you. Each and every desire is a sensation that arises within our bodies and when we get quiet and allow ourselves to feel them, we open spaces in ourselves for healing. The process is not comfortable, it may not even be pleasant, but once you are alive, you don’t want to go back to being asleep. You want to feel.
The world’s religions talk about salvation, redemption. They talk about their way being “the way.”
What if there was only one way, but not in the way that we think?
What if the Way encompassed every way?
What if the Way was something we already had built into us?
What if there was no outside redeemer or savior or Messiah? What if there was only, ever, you?"
This is the offering I'm creating for you. It has taken me a long time to get here. I've tried, multiple times, to dsitrill my truth into a readable format to guide others into the truth of their own souls. It's been hard. It was hard mostly because I kept trying to abstractify - I was trying to say something that I thought others would like...not what I really needed to say. Now, I'm saying my truth whether it seems nice or not. I hope it touches, resonates with you so deeply that you never want to be the same again. I'm all about creating this world as I WANT IT TO BE. Who's with me?