Your Life is Your Path to Awakening

“Boundless freedom is discovered in the unconditional acceptance of WHAT IS. Whatever the experience, who you truly are is never separate from the realization of unconditional Freedom, lasting peace, and fulfillment.”

Nobody can meet you here entirely, except yourself. You are your highest guru and life itself is your spiritual practice. Engaging your heart with all of life and consciously participating in life in full awareness is what it means to truly live. So, one could say, spirituality is about living truly and truly living. It is about relating to life as life itself in each and every moment. 

The entirety of Life is spirit. Spirit doesn’t look a certain way. In this sense, spirituality is not a special topic that stands on the outside of life, nor is it some kind of unseen dimension. Spirituality is neither “out there” nor “in here” in quite the same way that reality is neither “inside” nor “outside.”

Spirituality is not something we practice on our meditation cushion when the kids have gone to bed. It is not about acquiring this or that technique or teaching, becoming a better or nicer person, reading a multitude of books, or experiencing any particular or esoteric state of consciousness. It is not about transcending, denying, or giving up anything.

Spirituality doesn’t necessarily have an Indian sounding name either! It doesn't  speak or dress one-way or the other. It is not about holding a particular posture or position, and it is certainly not about doing things the 'right' or 'wrong' way. 

Our everyday life is the most extraordinary spiritual practice we can discover. Whatever we are experiencing in this moment, however ordinary or challenging it may be, is a gift of endless possibility for the growth, expansion, and evolution of our souls.

Take whatever life gives you and look at it deeply. Here, in this moment, whatever your circumstances, just be willing to tell the truth and simply observe what happens when you tell the Truth to yourself.

It doesn’t matter what your life circumstances look like. Even in the midst of the most challenging and painful moments, your day-to-day life is your path to awakening. We are always given exactly what is needed, at any given time, for the highest evolution of our soul.

The heart has an extraordinary capacity to see what is real, to discern the Truth, and to bear what is here. When we are connected to the heart, there is nothing that cannot be seen through, cleared, healed, and released. 

Return to your experience of life, here, now, moment to moment. Whatever the experience, who you truly are is never separate from unconditional freedom, lasting peace, and fulfillment.

Boundless freedom is discovered in the unconditional acceptance of what is. Surrender to “what is” dissolves all habits of fear and doubt, all energy of lack and limitation. Control is always imprisoning, surrender is infinietly liberating.

Surrender is not the same as passive resignation or compliance. It is rather an inspired, empowered embrace of life; it is the willingness to be present with life just as it is. This doesn’t exclude our capacity to make choices, take any action or decision to change our current circumstances.

The compassionate heart has full capacity to surrender.  As we surrender we may come to experience hard feelings, such as anger, fear, or grief. In meeting the core of our pain comes release and relief. The heavy emotional burden we had once labeled as ‘sadness’ or ‘fear’ is ultimately seen to be no different from the heart itself into which it melts back into.

Surrender in the midst of some of the most challenging moments in my life showed me how life continues to break us open until it illuminates that core in us that remains unbroken.  

One of the most important life lessons for me to discover was this: the inherent joy and freedom that is alive in us does not exclude pain. All experience, especially the most painful, we can choose to bless. Experience is just experience, meaning that it is not necessarily “positive” or “negative” until we come to judge it.   

In choosing to recognize what is real for us in each moment, in dropping resistance, as well as all avoidance and defense tactics, we open the heart to the freedom that is already here.