Mind Like Sky

Gratitude is the gracious acknowledgement of all that continues to sustain us in our life. The whole state of your heart and mind can soften, open to joy, and be renewed in delight as you practice gratitude.

Letting go does not mean losing the knowledge we have gained from the past. The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions, grudges, fears, and disappointments that bind your spirit. Like emptying a cup, letting go leaves us free to receive, refreshed, sensitive, and awake.

Grief is one of the heart’s natural responses to loss. By our willingness to mourn, we are able to acknowledge, integrate, and accept the truth of our losses. This allows us to feel the truth of our pain. The heart has its own rhythms. It will open in its own time, little by little. In a culture that has forgotten how to grieve, we can heal by honoring our pain instead of succumbing to the urge to “get over it.”

As human beings, we are constantly at war to escape. To escape from fear, pain, or the circumstances we can’t control. But instead of escaping, we create immeasurable suffering for ourselves. Simply being still, silent, open, and present with loving awareness for all things. For this is your true nature. And this is how you stop the war in and around you.

The human heart has the extraordinary capacity to transform the sorrows of life into a great stream of compassion. Compassion proclaims the power of the tender and merciful heart in face of the sufferings of the world.

With a loving heart as the background, all that we attempt and encounter, will open and flow easily.

Trust is a spirit of love that is not afraid. Below the levels of stories, habits, and immediate reactions are deeper levels of knowing. Take time to tune in mindfully with respect, and let your confidence and trust in yourself grow as you do. Listen deeply below your thoughts to an understanding that’s there for you. This is how you learn to trust your intuition and instincts. A trusting heart is a gateway to happiness.

By naming your emotions, you become the mindful witness, the loving awareness that can hold them. By practicing feeling our feelings with the power of loving awareness and kind curiosity, we can create a field of deep understanding and transformation.

This is a practice to help you step out of fear and difficulty and rediscover the inherent wisdom that you carry beyond all the conflicts that you face.

Every form of genuine awareness is liberating. Each moment we release entanglement and identification is selfless and free. You are the space of loving awareness.

Without identifying with our stories, plans, conflicts or worries, we can rest in the awareness itself, acknowledging the moment-to-moment changing landscape of our minds—the pleasure and pain, the praise and blame, drifting through our awareness like clouds passing through. Close-in or vast, near or far, awareness illuminates the ungraspable nature of the universe. It returns the heart and mind to its birthright, naturally luminous and free.

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