“When you use a method to find and open the gate with a love, you can’t get trapped in the method. The method has to die. It has to fall apart. So that you can realize that the opening was always there.” ~ Ram Dass
When we find love and joy through another, why does that become a trap? Why do we have to learn to let the method of how we found something, die?
Well, simply put, it’s so you can face the realization love was always there. Awareness was always there. The connection to the divine was always there. All of you, was always here.
(I dive deep into all of this in my solo episode this week on the podcast. Go here to listen.)
Years ago I had a friend tell me that he was more alive when he was in love. He told me he was funnier, brighter, dreamier, happier…. all the things. And to be honest, as I type this, this was how I often felt about what love brought into my life.
I hear the same reflections when people speak about what psychedelics bring them, what MDMA awakens in them, what ayahuasca sparks alive in them. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not shaming the method that wakes us up, nor saying that profound experiences can’t be had through different practices, what I’m saying is that if we depend on the method, we miss that it was just a doorway to what was always there.
So many of us chase things to feel things. We chase things to feel more. More _______ (whatever – insert your more).
But why not just create more? Why not just become more? Why not just be more?
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