A Parting of the Ways With the Promise Breaker (Blog)

If it is in our heart, at all...

...Not just the wish to be free, but to no longer bring conflict or bitterness into the lives of those around us, then here is our great task.

We must learn to use the presence of psychological pain as an invitation to not just question the things we believe are valuable, but to launch an investigation into how we ever came to that conclusion.

This level of conscious work, and the invaluable exchange it heralds, begins as we realize the significance of the following truth; where the more we welcome its light -- especially in unwanted moments -- the better we’ll be able to see, and change the kind of choices we make, forever altering and brightening our destiny all at the same time:

Whatever we have become identified with over the course of our life -- and, as a consequence, find ourselves suffering over for fear of its loss -- is not now, nor did it ever possess the freedom it promised to deliver.