BURN!

Apprenticeship to Love: The crooked path of marriage (June 9, 2026) originally published June 9, 2022

TODAY'S QUESTION

Are you still protecting yourself from what this life, and the love that holds you, offers? When will you let the burning away commence? How will you allow yourself to be, fully, who you are?

TODAY’S MEDITATION

How long ago did I begin to understand this —that the pain I feel standing on the edge of my vulnerability, my raw openness to life, this is the burn I need to know?

When did this begin to sear itself into me as a brand, a tattoo of fire teaching me that I am here only to burn and burn and burn more brightly, that I may know the gifts of this life, of love?

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Right now, with this breath, I know the flow of this life, this love —what I call the feminine in me and around me.

I sit. Silent. Still. I receive, and a smile blossoms in my heart.

The only way I am here in this now of blossoming is to breathe, to open, to step with my heart wide open into what is a crucible of learning to love. Without want or expectations. To let this crucible burn me. Test me. Purify me, and prove me as the man I love.

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What is this life and this love I feel except the fire of testing? It is burning away all that is protecting me from being the man I am.

This "feminine testing" reduces me. I am revealed to myself. I am the man whom she trusts to hold her safe. I am, reduced and refined and purified, safe enough for her to blossom into her radiance as my beloved.

I am he who must be trusted. I am this man. And, breathing long and deep into myself and into the earth that grounds me, I am grateful for all the testing.

TODAY’S INSPIRATIONS

🌀Life is like a purifying fire that sets ablaze all our false notions of control. We eagerly jump in and then are surprised when we get burned. (Gopika)

🌀Listen to your heart through your fear, and be willing to take the next step without the slightest idea of what will happen when you do. (David Deida)

🌀Changing your breath is the highway to changing your awareness. (Kundalini Yoga School)

🌀I’m always impressed by you. (My beloved, my Oracle)

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