Yes, we are always free to choose; our inner state is not dependent on our outer circumstances as Victor Frankl’s writes in Man’s Search for Meaning, about his experience in the concentration camp.
As you pointed out, awareness is the key, to recognize that we are never alone.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom here my friend.

May awareness of your connection to the source be your constant experience.

Thanks for your beautiful words, the journey is more easeful with a community of kindred souls. We support and embrace each other with the love we are reconnecting with. This is the journey and the destination, seeing and living our interconnectedness, our divine aspect.

Much love to you, my friend!

This is true, “Individuals simply choose to blur clarity and rock inner stability in order to find their way back to the truth. ”
In eastern mysticism they refer to the Play of Consciousness, where divinity descends into form and loses all identification with divinity and identifies with form. The spiritual healing journey is about reconnecting with the divine aspect again. A play!

As always you bring much wisdom to the conversation, thank you!

I feel so much healing energy in the poems you write. It reminds me of an incident when my daughter was five years old.

She came home terribly upset and was sobbing so violently because she was rejected by her best friend, who lived next door.
I could not comfort her in her misery. I left her and went on with my chores. Not long after, she came skipping to me, with the most cheerful ambiance and handed me a little slip of paper. When I looked at it, I saw a little drawing of someone looking out a window high up in a castle with guards, drawbridge and mote, saying, “no, no.”

When I read your poems I get a similar feeling, art is a great healer,”Our wounds are a path to healing.”

Thank you for the award, it means a lot to me that you appreciate my writing, You have been a great support and source of inspiration. I cherish your positive energy and your focus on bringing lightness and joy to all, even though you are dealing with the most challenging circumstances in your work. You are a true healer!

Sending you soft love and deep peace my friend.

Aah, there’s only one mind, and sometimes we get to really relate to that!

A few years back, I had an insight which I want to share with you. I may be totally off, but I like this outlook. It occurred to me that if we lived many, many lifetimes, then we can be spending all of our lives dealing with clearing out old emotional baggage.

We have to be present to emotions when they show up and just let them go and not get too concerned about going deeper and exploring them etc. I like the Buddhist way of naming them and holding ourselves with loving-kindness and like unwanted thoughts, so too these emotions are like passing clouds in the sky of our minds. A kind of mindfulness of feelings and letting them go as they will always be showing up, we have many life-times of impressions. Like dragons, you can’t slay them, but you can tame them.

I like to work with practices that focus on bringing light that shines into our darkness, there has to be a balancing act in the practices we do, we can’t negate our woundedness yet we must be careful not to focus on them. I like meditation, chanting and yoga as well as doing artwork, and keeping a dream journal. Body work is helpful to keep it all balanced.

It is different for each of us I think and we need to listen to our hearts, what we need changes at different junctures along the way.

Thanks for sharing.
May you bask in the joy of your healing journey!

LOL! Your unique humorous perspective always amuses me.

Sometime being a lookiloo is as painful as slaying dragons in the dark realms. You know what you have to do and you are afraid. That can be painful, but we don’t know it until we do it and it is so often that we say, “why did it take me so long to get here?”

Blessings for an easeful journey on the path to wholeness.

Woundedness and the ‘Becoming whole’ are ideas which have always resonated with me…

I like the idea of perfection in imperfection…

Our wounds as our path to healing…

As you so beautifully articulate… Life is the path and the destination,

Thank you for being in this world,

Deep love, M

PS award for you at my place