Surrender and the Deepest Calling
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A reflection on the tension between clinging to a limited identity and flowing with the deepest longing of life, and how liberation emerges from that struggle.
Surrender and the Deepest Calling
A reflection on the tension between clinging to a limited identity and flowing with the deepest longing of life, and how liberation emerges from that struggle.
There was a surrendering into the crucifixion by choice, even if it is only a symbol and metaphor. And then there is the resurrection: something that can come out the other side. That something is our being. What dies is our illusion, our identification.
The inner battle
As humans, we have this constant inner battle between choosing to flow deeply with what the deepest part of us wants, the deepest calling of the universe through us, or resisting that. We resist just enough to preserve an idea of what we are. And when we do this, we suffer. When we let go into life, there is fear and pain. It is this very tension that constitutes the spiritual process.
Liberation as the end of contraction
There is something that can happen, a liberation, where the ability to contract into a belief in something limited simply ends. This is not the ending of pain. It is the ending of that resistance to life, to a very great degree. It is not important to see it as absolute, as one hundred percent, but it is a profound shift.
What does the universe want through you?
The direction is simple. What do you want? What does the universe want through you? What is your deepest longing, your deepest desire? Then observe, and be as clear as you can, that it is not coming from a place of service to separation or limitation. If it moves toward what you fear, more likely than not, that is the way.