Healing your Relationship with Love
The Last Mile (of your Spiritual Journey)
In the beginning … was the Light. Was the Love.
The journey of our souls. You can think of the path, or journey, that our souls take having to start somewhere. It started in the Light, in the Love, of the Divine. In the beginning was the Light. Consciousness without karma. Love without condition. We then, as souls, chose to go into separation, karma and shadow. We journey into the darkness, into the shadow, until it is time to start our return to the Light. The return to our wholeness.
We enter the shadow, or darkness, when we take on karma. Taking on karma is to separate ourselves from ourselves. Taking on karma is like fragmenting our consciousness. To posture with what is. Likewise, the journey back home is the re-integration of where we have fragmented ourselves. Resolving our shadow is the journey back home. We are returning (ourselves) to the Light, to the Love, at the core of our being.
Our egos tend to categorize the world outside of us. That is a door. That is a chair. Oh my … is that chocolate? Of course, this categorization is beneficial. Can you hand me that ice cream? What? What is ice cream? By categorizing everything we can collectively know what we are talking about. By labeling everything, we can communicate what we want. Very useful. But, when the ego labels other people, and puts judgment on them, then we start to enter a slippery slope. The notion of good (people) and bad (people) is part of the “last mile.” The last mile back home. The last stretch of shadow or separation that we need to heal to help us make that metaphorical last mile back home. Back to the Unconditional Love within ourselves.
By our judgment of others, we have separated aspects of ourselves. But what we are actually “seeing” is ourselves. Who is the “right” one and who is the “wrong” one? Think about these categories. The Sinner and the Saint. The Hero and the Villain. The Cop and the Criminal. These are two aspects of the same coin. In order to have the hero experience, you need a villain. To play out the role of the villain, you typically have to go much further into the shadow. Into the darkness. In order to have these experiences, we as souls chose to go into the shadow.
Rumi, the 13th century poet, said, “Both Light and Shadow are the Dance of Love.” Both the villain and the hero are Love expressing itself. We often think that the villain is wrong or bad. And certainly from some points of view that is true. But if you peel away the story and look at the mechanisms playing out, both the hero and the villain are Love expressing itself. The villain just went much further into separation to play out the role of the villain. To heal our judgment of the villain, is to see through the eyes of unconditional Love.
To learn how to “see” through the eyes of Unconditional Love is to see the Divinity of all that is.
Love You
Les
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