Oh the Foolishness of My Intellect
Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened.
— John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
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Wanting to sit with suffering ~ as if this will increase the quality of the amends.
An honest amends carries not only acknowledgment of harm done. Within the harm lies the next step on the journey toward a living amends.
Not some mystical event that rights the past and ensures the future. Just an honest desire ~ tirelessly, daily, within the moment ~ to bring active force to the gift of the amends.
So what does this gift entail? How do I know what the next step is?
I start by acknowledging, consciously, daily, the need to cultivate ~ thought by thought, action by action ~ the internal and external source of Love beyond conception.
Turn to the spark embedded by Sophia. That spark of the Pleroma. The ground beneath the ground of my being.
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