Strength is born from weakness. We do ourselves a service remembering this. All our power comes from being inept. By allowing ourselves to be weak and unskilled, by recognizing our actual ability or disability, and allowing ourselves to be there, and mindfully applying our attention and what ability we do have, we best situate ourselves to grow in both ability and strength.
We must feed ourselves where we are not where we wish we were or where we think we are for the best results. All power comes from weakness, from vulnerability and openness. In this openness we find our greatest strength.
If we are not open to change, how can we grow? Life constantly seems to expand in new ways. Through the opening of new life we draw in vital life essence. Life must be vulnerable here, exposed and even broken open so that it can evolve in space and through time. This is why the best heart is one that is always broken. It is always capable of adapting to an ever changing environment and because of this, always pulls strength out of thin air, meeting the demands of the moment spontaneously and vigorously.
Being awake means naturally resting in broken heartedness: not forming a new crystalized and frozen identity that cripples life's natural power and buoyancy. This broken heart is the open field of Amen roaring with unbroken generation of cosmic life energy.
It is our very weakness that allows life energy to flow into us because our natural state is one of incompleteness. Tender hearted feeling is the basic expression of this natural state. It encompasses the warmth of in flowing life mixed with the rawness of being eternally torn open as life grows. The joy of refreshing newness tinged with the pain of loss and death. Life is incomplete and so are we.
Joy springs from this incompleteness. Ever new bliss of awakening to new life, new expression of self and feeling. Purpose is renewed here again and again as it should be. Our life flows into us through this incomplete state of being.
Incompleteness, our mortal weakness is the way to completeness Self-realization in Oneness or Spirit. In our brokenness we recognize the One. From our broken state of being we draw in the life force and strength we need to achieve yoga with God.
The true nature of our weakness is its strength that flows infinitely from the Divine. By objectively observing our mortal nature, we look through the cracks and recognize the Divine Light and Power shining through them. Our true ability is infinite as well.
We are not our mortal perceptions of body and mind. We are an infinite and perfect Self whose exterior is ever-changing and whose core is eternal and changeless. This is the nature of the One whom we each are. We are the undying life of the One with its multitude of expressions that come and go.
When we cease to identify with the mortal body and conditioned self sense, the eternal life of the One becomes apparent in its massive singularity.
It is a shining Light. It is God. It is the form of Infinity that we call Divinity. And thank the Lord that it is real.
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