{"id":6111,"date":"2013-09-14T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:43:58","slug":"preparing-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/preparing-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing you for what is next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Look close and see what it is that you do not want to feel, that you will do anything to avoid, that no matter what you\u2026 will\u2026 not\u2026 go\u2026 there. Your dependency. Your aloneness. Your hatred. Your utter despair. Your conviction that you are not actually lovable as you are.<\/p>\n<p>Take pause. Things are not what they seem. For love is alive, and is all. Touch the earth. Look up into the sky. Call out for help. Crumble to the ground. Fall apart and give up the fantasy that you will ever, ever, ever be put back together again. Breathe this abandoned feeling into your heart. Hold it. Touch it. Let it unravel its secrets. Let it dance within you. Let it unlock each and every strategy, defense, and piece of armor protecting you. It will not destroy you. It has come as fierce grace to reveal how infinite you really are.<\/p>\n<p>What you are is pristine, luminous consciousness itself. Even the greatest despair, the most terrifying fear, the most profound grief \u2013 these rise and fall in you, liberating in your awareness, in your care, and in your kindness. Your body and your heart are a sanctuary for love\u2019s movement. Your body is a factory of grace.<\/p>\n<p>See that there is nothing here working against you. Everything in this world is comprised of the same particles of love, which take shape as the galaxies, the oceans, and as the cells of your heart. They illuminate the strands of your DNA and the synapses in your brain. Love is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Watch carefully how love appears as light and appears as dark, as wisdom and confusion, as joy and as sadness, and as human and divine, come only to prepare you for what is next. And what is next after that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1619\" alt=\"sky5\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sky5.jpg\" width=\"1278\" height=\"853\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look close and see what it is that you do not want to feel, that you will do anything to avoid, that no matter what you\u2026 will\u2026 not\u2026 go\u2026 there. Your dependency. Your aloneness. Your hatred. Your utter despair. Your conviction that you are not actually lovable as you are. Take pause. 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