Around the Broken Heart

Posted by colettekelso in awareness, Being, conflict, Expression, love, Non-duality, Suffering and tagged with awakening, conflict, impermanence, innocence, inseparability, light, nonduality, Oneness, paradigm shift, Peace, peace that passeth understanding, shining, suffering, witness August 10, 2019

The story is strong; the story is saddening. The way things appear to be today, this disjointed, split vision of the world–yes, there is grief, but who or what are you in response?

There are not two worlds–one of peace (can I not find/return to it?), and one of painful division (please make it stop!).

There are only infinite perspectives, emboldening the division, or holding the peace. Can we not be the benevolent, generous, whole heart that surrounds and holds the broken heart that appears as the world?

Be as you truly are, the undivided that surrounds the perceived division. You/we are more than big enough.

Relationship: Seeing Innocence

Posted by colettekelso in Relationship and tagged with A Course in Miracles, Byron Katie, causeless joy, innocence, Khalil Gibran, Look-See, paradigm shift, relationship April 13, 2013

What is Relationship? If you look at it from the “No two people ever met,” perspective (from Byron Katie), it gets stranger and stranger, but perhaps only better and better.

Whether it is relationship with family members, friends, coworkers or lovers, is there an element of defend and protect, or cherish and keep? Both of these interchangeable stances create the intractable difficulties we experience in all our relationships. Is it true that “Hell is other people?” Or, if you take out the judgment, expectation, fear, and all our assumptions about who all these other people are, what’s left?

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