Quote: The more you avoid a willingness to learn and grow, the more it will continue to hurt.
Within the practicality of your everyday life, both your perceived failures and successes contain the seeds of discovery that guide you to experience more of what you crave.
It doesn’t matter how far along you are on your journey, what your background is, or even what mistakes you believe you’ve made so far. The simple reality is that within the sincerity of your human journey lies your ability to make real and meaningful progress.
Real Progress
You see, what might be progress for you can look very different from someone else, and yet, the experience of “progress” remains.
This is what makes the human journey worthwhile: to learn, to grow, and to experience an improvement that somehow makes the struggle or suffering valuable and meaningful.
To illustrate this: consider going through a painful relationship challenge, where it seems your deep love for someone is being destroyed, and you’re about to lose it all. Then, at the last minute, you have a profound discovery that restores the love and brings you to a place of deeper intimacy and connection with your partner.
Real Discovery
Of course, such a discovery is only available to the one who is willing to look more deeply and more honestly at the situation. And, for the one who is not willing, for the one who is stuck in their ego, they ultimately end up receiving the opposite of what they genuinely crave, which is that deeper connection and intimacy.
Even in the failure of such a thing, the pain ultimately invites you to be more open, to look at yourself, and to question what went wrong. This is an invitation to see things more clearly, and, as you do, this clarity (Truth) brings you closer to the sincerity of what you crave.
You see, the more you avoid a willingness to learn and grow, the more it will continue to hurt. This isn’t a punishment, this pain is an alarm from the deepest parts of your heart, asking for your loving attention.
Your Journey
Your journey of being human is a journey of seeing more of what’s true through the unique lens of… You. This journey you are on will never be, and has never been, repeated by anyone else.
Even though we, in some way, are all discovering the same lessons, discovering the same depth of reality, we are each going about it in our own unique ways. Each way, each path, is incredibly important to the wholeness of Life.
In many ways, this is an invitation to stop comparing your path to the path of others and become deeply intimate with the journey you are on. Don’t compare your progress to someone else’s progress. Rather, take an honest look at where you are, for you, and explore the practical next steps of discovery that can facilitate meaningful progress.
Your Heart
Please, take a deep breath, come back to your heart, and open up to the possibility that you’re not alone in this; that Life is on your side, and that you are simply on a journey of discovery.
Let’s open up to that discovery together, and… trust the process.
I’m honored to do this work that I do, this play of sharing my heart and helping you see yourself more clearly. Thanks for showing up.
I love supporting you
Just so you know, there are essentially five ways I can support you.
From a distance…
- Free content such as this email/message and my other free online contributions (audio/video/social media).
More closely…
- A more expansive and in-depth collection of content and online courses to support your learning and discovery.
- At retreats, where we take a full week to delve into the deepest parts of ourselves, see what we need to see, so we can open up, fear less, and love more.
The closest…
- In my private, close-knit community of heart-based humans, whom I meet up with regularly, to more deeply embrace and learn from our shared human journey.
- Or, one on one, where you and I journey together and dive deeply into your direct experience, and I support you in rapidly moving through confusion and connecting more deeply with what you crave to experience.
If maybe you don’t know where to start, but you deeply resonate with my heart and message, and you desire to work with me more closely, there’s a very simply solution.
