shadow work

Whatever your difficulties—a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness—you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do—despite your circumstances—are to be present and to be willing to love…..Jack Kornfield

a quote like this leaves nothing to be decided….

more like pretending than deciding…

it’s too full…too perfect….not enough to explain many, many things….

and yet, I am so drawn to this quote….to this disquieting ideal….

where the sidewalk is not full of confused & weary faces….

but cynicism & pain & ugliness are very real…look in your shadows….

do you see choices?

If you look for the truth outside yourself, it gets farther & farther away. Today, walking alone, I meet him everywhere I step. he is the same as me, yet I am not him. Only if you understand it in this way will you merge with the way things are…..Tung-Shan

this choice seems a bit like a random fortune……or is it?……

not getting so caught up in stories…. asking again & again…who am I?…