The Wk of 6/11/26 gnawing on my branch (copy 01)

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Our spirituality grows in a natural way, according to who we really are.

There’s a little apple tree outside my kitchen window. And you know, I get apples from that tree. And there’s seeds in those apples. And I can stand in my kitchen looking at the seed which is real little and the apple tree is not huge but it’s bigger than

the seed. Within this seed is that apple tree. I mean there’s no logic. There’s no logical way that this seed looks like the apple tree, but I know it is. But for that seed to become the apple tree, there are countless steps that it has to takeand no amount of impatience or exhorting the seed or criticizing it or punishing it for not being an apple tree. You can’t skip one stage. And in fact, an effort to skip a stage will kill the possibility of it becoming a tree and you’ll have to start over with another seed. So this is this strange balance that we all have to find within ourselves. 

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I continue to sit with the idea of “comfort.” I don’t know about you, but as the consciousness on this planet increases, I am finding less and less comfort in the old things that at one time comfortably distracted me: romantic relationships, movies, tv, food, social media, coffee, (hard drugs and booze left long ago!)…the list is endless. All of those are losing (or have utterly lost) their juice for me. In terms of this week’s reading, it’s like my branch is being shortened, inch by inch, and soon there will be no old foot hold.  Like I’m being asked to fly (the nerve!). Like I am being pushed into greater, unknown depths of myself, minus distraction/old habits, and asked to create a new, INNER COMFORT, rather than outer (I say this like it’s easy…IT. IS. NOT). If you step your foot on the path of growth, watch out, you cannot un-ring a bell. Knowwhatimsayin? 

All that to say, I am doing my best to stay relaxed & awake. Emphasis on relaxed! To relax into new values. New ideas. New practices. To welcome (instead of brutally fighting) discomfort. “Attitude over mood,” I hear Yogananda whisper on the regular. 

If (& when) you find yourself in new and perhaps terrifying & unknown depths, may you feel a growing and trusted seat inside of yourself. Welcome, as best you can in a given moment, the discomfort. Welcome it as if a friend that has come to answer your request to grow. Welcome it. Work with it. Try to ease up on fighting it tooth and nail (as I off & on definitely do). The day MUST have the night in order to be its fine bright self. Must. Must. Must. The caterpillar MUST go to goo for the purposes of total transformation. So too must we. 

You are doing greater things than you think. On a soul level, what you are doing is massive & multi-faceted. I hope that each of you knows that even in the teeniest tiniest way. 

For some universal context & potential solution from some wise beings, see the podcast below.

In it with you, goo & all. Onward!

ek

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Story from @TheGratitudeMind

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