Watch a rose day by day. At first the petals are wrapped tightly around the center. Day by day they release and reveal more of the center. Each day reveals a new appearance as the petals spread outward, changing the shape. Does it reveal more of the rose or is this simply the ongoing evolution of the rose as it changes? The rose cannot stop this change, this evolution. It cannot control each moment. What is the driving Force of its growth and even its death? Life is one flow that unfolds, blossoming in cycles of birth and death. It is when you try to control this flow that suffering ensues. Allow Life to reveal itself. You contain the beauty of all Nature within you. Blossom by not resisting the forward flow of Life.
You are so very loved.
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For some reason this really touched me.
I understand that birth and death are the flow of life, but how do you get your heart to flow through the sadness of death and be able to let it go. My grief has stayed with me and become a part of me.
janni
Dearest Janni, may your grief cause you to seek the answers to these questions and to come to KNOW, through the experience of it, that you are part of the FLOW of Life, not apart from it, and that this Flow, this Power, this Light, this Source of which you are a part includes the ups and downs and yet all is well. Resisting the Flow with its ups and downs, birth and death, brings great pain. Accepting that pain as part of the journey and just flowing with it brings a RELEASE, a freedom that says, “I am riding it out,” and in this surrendered, flowing state, knowing peace. The pain eventually gives way … because it is only half of being. Grief is part of you, indeed! As is joy. Roll around in all of it. Observe it rather than resisting it. Look for the joy. It’s there, too.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am going to try very hard to do this.
Have not commented of late, but thoughts of Sanaya have resonated greatly; he is with me with much Gratitude!
Funny thing: thought I’d gotten over the “he”, but there I did it again. However, I know THEY understand.