Allowing Instead of Resisting

This poem truly points to the core of what we are exploring together…that the ‘mind made me’ that struggles with everything will never bring us the healing we long for.  It is the new level of mind – the mind that connects rather than controls and feels mercy rather than judgment which will heal us to our core. This kind of mind EMBRACES everything. And the poem says it so well!

ALLOW by Danna Faulds

There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightning bolt,
containing a tornado.  Dam a
stream and it will create a new
channel.  Resist, and the tide
will sweep you off your feet.
Allow, and grace will carry
you to higher ground.  The only
safety lies in letting it all in –
the wild and the weak; fear,
fantasies, failures and success.
When loss rips off the doors of
the heart, or sadness veils your vision with despair,
practice becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your
known way of being, the whole
world is revealed to your new eyes.