09/10/2023
Every week I meet with a dear friend for an hour or so, what we have called contemplating existence.
She is the most petite, gentle badass there is. She goes into the forest for 3 weeks at a time alone to meet true being, to know it more intimately, to see where the identity is doing its thing. Meing. I have been integrating so much during our time, she has also been learning.
The funny thing is we don’t say that much. But so much is felt. Tears shared. Deep openings. Language has been disentangling for me this year. This deep understanding of how everything we’ve ever said dissolves when we return to being, that who are, is what will be met by God.
But yet one word can create huge waves of feeling. An awakened moment.
So we will be in presence together & she says a word like eternal & I feel it, eternity, the immortality of our being, the flesh returns back to the earth but something of each of us lives on forever as God - for me the heart & what lives inside it.
& I start to realise that words are just shapes of the mouth & tongue, true meaning of them comes from deep within the person who knows the word in there body. Who has tasted, contemplated, sat with it.
She is a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi, my entry to his work was Ram Dass years ago, his film becoming nobody changed my life. So I am remembering through Ramana Maharshi now. This quote really hit me. Maybe it’ll strike something in you? ✨
