Someone recently reminded me of a post I wrote a few years ago and thought it might be a good one to highlight again. I’ve dusted it off and added a bit to the end, but the essence is the same. A good reminder of the shelf life of truth.

Right now we all have the opportunity to choose the kind of world we want to live in and make decisions accordingly. There are of course many other things we can think about and criticize, but it really just comes down to a single choice, over and over, with every breath, word and deed. What will you choose?

Love and Fear

There are two states of existence. Love and Illusion.
Illusion has many analogs such as fear, despair, separation, broken. Love has none. It is only love. Everything else is illusion.

Humans are unique in that we are able to bridge worlds and states of existence. We live in the physical and the spiritual simultaneously. We form connections between places, people, ideas and states of being. We have the gift of free will to bring the potential of spirit into the actual of form. We are creators.

The dance partner of Love is illusion in the form of Fear. When the two divine partners meet in the presence of a human something special happens. We humble, simple, common, amazing, wonderful, beings somehow can receive both. Not to choose one and reject the other, but to combine and transcend them. We digest them, metabolize them and grow strong on the nourishment.

This is where we leave the world of opposites of which language is part. No words can take us here although they can lead us to the doorway in successively approximate and lyrical ways. This is the realm of Zen Koans and poetry. What comes of metabolizing love and it’s opposite defies description, but not knowing. And not representation. We call this Art. We also call it Presence.

These two dance partners are never far from each other. Always circling, always moving and shifting and relating. Shiva and Shakti Tango in the great mosh pit of manifestation. The experience of great fear is an indication of the presence of great love. If you are experiencing great amounts of either, you have both available and you have a great opportunity.  To receive these fundamental nutrients, metabolize them, transform them and offer them purified into creation. To grow. BEcome.

This is the stuff dreams are made of. Quite literally. The power of creation. We experience it as health, prosperity, inspiration, art, sovereignty, connection… presence.
All of these are words pointing to… that which has no words.

Jan 23, 2015, San Francisco

This is what we’re doing in the Embodiment work, still. It’s simple really, relating love and fear in our projects and our dreams and relationships and bodies and lives. Consciously choosing to trust the instrument that is the Self and bring it to realization. It’s not so much about choosing one over the other as choosing to trust ourselves to live a deeper truth. May it be beautiful.

The Embodied Creator series is a 3 part foundational journey through your own creativity, love and illusion, created specifically to help you reinvent yourself during this powerful time of choice.
Simple. Fun. Healing.

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