Thank you for reading my posts. It is astounding to me that one can write something, let some people on Facebook know about it and within three weeks people in 10 countries are reading my blog. I did not know if anyone would be interested in it or find it helpful, so even if I do not know you personally, I am honored and humbled that you take time to read my posts. I carry you in my heart.
Most of us try to cultivate our strengths, the kind of strengths the world recognizes and values, and yet, these strengths that we use to make it in life, to get ahead, are not what will take you home. Your strengths are not your real power; your real power lies in something the world does not particularly value. However, responding to your strengths feels easy, and what you are used to, but in terms of developing your being it actually makes things difficult. Your real power lies in deep vulnerability. Responding to your deep vulnerability within does not feel easy, and it is not a way of being that many have been trained in. We don't even value it except in certain instances. Do not be fooled though, this not a doormat quality that others might wipe their feet on. When you are deeply vulnerable, no one can do anything to get you, to take you apart, because you are already apart. As you become grounded in this you are total clearness in which anything that occurs in your life just passes through not getting hooked in you anywhere. When you are fully being deep vulnerability there is an innate power that arises, an inner authority, and none of it is for you to use for yourself. You cannot use deep vulnerability in order to gain the power that you actually are. Using it would render it inert. In other words, you cannot fake it, that would just be you being internally dishonest.
It is all about you authentically giving your entire being and mind to deep vulnerability. In this everything shows. You can hide nothing. You will not be able to get away with anything, so it is only the honest that will ever go there. Fully responding to this with your mind may feel like having to relearn absolutely everything. It was like that for me for three or four years. Hopefully you are a faster learner than I was.
This is the very center for a spiritual foundation. The cornerstones of deep vulnerability are the qualities of kindness, softness, openness and honesty. We naturally resonate with these qualities within ourselves. It may have been a long time ago, but we were once all these qualities. This was a time when life, the world, everything was really okay. This must all begin with you being these qualities within yourself.
We can be horrible to ourselves, in ways we would never let anyone else be with us. We invalidate ourselves, go tight inside, be arrogant and selfish, make ourselves sick, and we cut corners (try to get away with things), etc. If you really take this on, you will be noticing every time you are anything that is not founded in kindness, softness, openness and honesty. At first it may feel overwhelming; use all your internal resources to change how you are being with yourself. You will establish a new pattern within you, heart knowledge. This will make your heart greater than your feelings, greater than your mind, greater than your person, greater than your self. You will become more of you. You need to have these cornerstones like your body needs air. Once you are completely trustworthy and grounded in being softness, openness, kindness and honesty in this life then what is beyond this life opens.
There can be no getting away with anything, anything. Honesty within is the only way. Light can only come out of the dark; that is where you first see it.
When you think about it... What is there to protect or control? Isn't what is of real value within impenetrable? Can what you truly are ever be harmed?
Surrender and breathe in this pull. You can do this. Everything is really okay.
Love and peace....
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