Thoughts inspired by a card from a Beloved

"Thank you for being here with me."

Short, simple, POWERFUL.
How many times in your life has someone simply "been there with you" (without trying to fix or analyze you or the situation)?
How many times have YOU simply allowed yourself to "be here" with someone?
This feels like the TRUE experience & expression of love.  No requests to do anything, just acknowledgment and gratitude for presence, holding space, seeing another.  Our presence as shown through our eyes allows us to see and be seen by others.  And often times, that's all we really want or need.  In Garrison Starr's new album "Beside," she has an amazing song about this called, Sit With Me Tonight.

How would your life different if from the moment you were born, everyone that nurtured & raised you truly SAW you...versus telling you how you should be or could be?  Everyone around you encouraged you to find how you are a piece of Life's Heart.  It is only through deep and profound love does that process happen - as painful and joyful as it is all at the same time.  A yoga teacher of mine recently said that those things which bring us the greatest joy (or that we desire/find pleasure in the most) are the things in which also bring us the most pain and suffering.  For in the depths of one, I always find it's mate.  As we all have mates, soulmates, life mates, etc., that offer us that crowning yet crucifying love which rips us open and empties us of our old furniture and clothing, making room for something new and brilliant to sprout up.

Consider the words of Kahlil Gibran on Love in his work "The Prophet":

For even as love crowns you so shall love crucify you. 
Even as love is for your growth so is love for your pruning. 
Even as love ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall love descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
...All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.
...When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 


And the words of Rumi in his work "Guest House":

This being human is a guest house. 
Every morning a new arrival. 

A joy, a depression, a meanness, 
some momentary awareness comes 
as an unexpected visitor. 

Welcome and entertain them all! 
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, 
who violently sweep your house 
empty of its furniture, 
still, treat each guest honorably. 
He may be clearing you out 
for some new delight. 

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, 
meet them at the door laughing, 
and invite them in. 

Be grateful for whoever comes, 
because each has been sent 
as a guide from beyond.

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