With Every Loss There is a Gain
These Losses were giant foundation stones
deeply embedded in the building of me. Their excavation left me capable of
seeing clearer than I had before. And yet, at the same time, there were little
subtle and invasive beliefs that surfaced through the years under different
experiences. Some of them were quite painful to let go of, and some of them
could be released by purely being aware of their existence.
One of the hardest sensations I had to let
go of was the subtle feeling that my value of truth, holding truth as a beacon
of light and assuming it was the highest goal of all, was only that- a value.
That blindly holding onto Truth as the sword of light was not necessarily kind,
considerate or of value to others. It was not a golden rule set in stone written
down by God. It was indeed, after careful searching, only a value. A value that
I didn’t even know I possessed until I suddenly saw the effects my insensitive
insistence of truth was having around me.
I remember lying on the green banks of lake
Mjosa and facing my truth and my path and realizing one had to go. I could not
continue to live honestly if I held so tightly onto truth. And I allowed the
value to drop from my body, and I cried again. I had thought it was me. I felt
a part of my personality, what I had identified as myself, fall away into the
earth. It was a death, again. A deep loss. And a great space. And freedom in
that death.
It’s not what you look like…. Levels of
awareness .. the need to express physically what you know in your mind…
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