Tend only to the birth in you and you will find all goodness and all consolation, all delight, all being and all truth. Reject it and you reject all goodness and blessing. What comes to you in this birth brings with it pure being and blessing. But what you seek or love outside of this birth will come to nothing, no matter what you will or where you will it.
—Meister Eckhart
I was listening to a podcast with the late Irish poet Jon O’Donahue this past week and he shared the concept of being a “midwife for the soul.”
This idea of birthing ourselves… of ushering in who we truly are into our lives.
This is THE work, isn’t it?
To be honest, I think it’s the only work.
I recognize of course that we have lives to live, things to do, bills to pay… but cannot all of that be used as a mechanism to midwife our soul? Can we not use all the experiences of our lives to really be witness to the miracle it is to breathe and be in these bodies and in these moments?
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