If your heart suddenly cracks open, this is when the bucket is lowered into the well of the past and hauled up to the surface. it means this pulley system of the heart is operational again! Consider this to be an unexpected miracle, a true liberation.
It leads to dangerous group-think, dishonesty, and violence. But tribalism also serves a crucial purpose.
Because our wounds birth the rest of our brilliance, and because we effect this healing somatically, embodied love is both dark and light. Emotional shadow work to become more compassionate and loving contrasts with superficial, new-age love, which we know is paper-thin and evaporates when the going gets even a little tougher.
“A common notion is that spiritual practice is at odds with emotional work. It certainly can be, but it doesn’t have to be.”
You may stave off the sting of being left, but at the greater cost of growing down to grow up.
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