OVERWHELMED, I SLOW DOWN AND BLOSSOM

Apprenticeship to Love: The crooked path of marriage (May 28, 2026) originally published May 28, 2022

TODAY’S MEDITATION

And then it all happened so fast. And the slower I went, the more came pouring into me.

These past two days, so much given to me.

Overwhelming, how much was given to me. And, how much more is waiting? I can feel it. And all I have to do to not be swept away by this flood of nourishment is slow down. Become even more slow. Let this opening from my beloved —so slow, so tender— be the gauge, showing me that I have to be even slower.

So much trust. So much subtle yet unrelenting opening. Overwhelming: To feel that much trust being placed in me.

So often in these past two days I've had to remind myself: slow down, savour it, feel it all and enjoy it all as it ever so slowly, painfully almost, opens me up.

I slow and she opens and her opening invites me to slow and open even more and all the while I'm feeling more and more vulnerable, more at the edge of overwhelmed but somehow managing to stay with the opening, the slowing... Allowing her to fill me up to overflowing...

Holding myself. Creating a space for her. Opening to her, I am holding myself, opening to myself.

I become so still that she flows, freely, and fills me to overflowing.

TODAY'S INSPIRATIONS

🌀[You are] like a leaf on a tree that does not believe it's fully related to the leaf hanging next to it or on the far side of the tree.
This sense of separateness gives rise to all of your negative emotions, the ones where you fear another leaf, doubt another leaf, believe that other leaves are your enemy...or at least not your friends. You share the same roots and trunk, you are the same lifeforce and whatever happens to another -- definitely affects you, even when you're not aware of it. (Guru Singh)

🌀Recognize that the other person is you. (Aquarian Sutra 1)

🌀I never imagined myself coming to you like this. (My beloved, my oracle)

TODAY'S QUESTION

Who do you trust so much that you allow them to break you open, so that you can feel afraid, but also feel beauty, and love?

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