Hi there! After an eventful week I felt compelled to write about authenticity. Living it, breathing it, embracing it and the simplicity and true power that it can bring your life. In todays world it is often supported to wear a mask, not a cloth mask a mask of false illusion. This corrupts an authentic life.
I was faced with a situation where I had given my love to someone for two decades only to find out at the end that it had all been essentially a manipulation on their end. This hurt me at first rather deeply. Because I had approached the relationship with authenticity of my intention to love with an open and loving heart. I don’t regret my choice to have approached the situation with authenticity just as I never have regretted doing this because I have found and still find that the rewards I carry from having loved from my heart with no expectation of positive return to have been the reward to my soul that I sought. Sure it can leave you crying but to walk in authenticity will only leave you crying for the time it takes to fully process the actions of others who may choose to live without authenticity. In the end I can honestly say I regret not one moment of the love I have given despite and in spite of the simple truth and fact that the individuals in receipt of that love were unable or unwilling to return it.
The choices of others to either respect such a delicate treasure as authentic love and caring is a burden they each may bear at some point in their living just as I bore the weight of the pain that they chose to not return that love. For reasons of fear or judgement or illusion or lack or fill in the blank with a truly inexhaustible plethora of varied excuses. Excuses put in place to avoid the inevitable feeling of something pure that is a true treasure because in the realization of that purity ones perspective can be shaken to the core.
In todays world we are at times told or taught that to show our emotions is to be weak. I question this with the simple logic of what is harder to do? Is it easier to hide behind an illusion of perfection of stoic emotionless stature, crying in the closet or the corner when you feel there is no witness? Or is it easier to allow yourself to feel and to truly examine and process ones feelings as one works to a path back to more love to more heart to a deeper and richer truth and a peace that cannot be bought. I myself would say it is a much more difficult path though an infinitely more worthy one to choose the path of emotion. To choose to piece together the puzzle pieces of our hearts so that they become more whole and can better show us the things of true value and worth in this life.
Living in Authenticity is not easy. It is terrifying at times as we are all soft in our core but our strength comes from that same softness. Strength does not come from a brittle hardness that shatters under pressure. True strength is a gentle and malleable force. It adapts, heals, challenges and changes all it comes into contact with inevitably. This change can be fought it can be denied temporarily but in the end it will triumph because of its pure simplicity to truth.
What are you doing today to live authentically? Do you also feel the rewards of not having to carry the burdens of the choices your illusions have forced upon your heart and soul or do you feel bound by some situation that you know what you are called in your heart to do yet are still denying? Feel the burden lift as you approach step by step a life of authenticity. A life lived in truth and in purity of heart and emotion both. After all, how can one know true joy without sorrow..
My heart remains open despite the actions of others who would prefer it not remain so. I still love with everything I have because I can and because it is what I feel this world is truly in need of. I feel the path to deep healing always involves love at some point. Love of oneself and the love and empathic consideration of all those in our lives. I have to say that I would choose no other path and would do not a single thing differently in any of the situations that the love I have given has been unrecognized for the richness of the treasure it is. I know that each and every single person that has chosen to do this has felt loss from the choice. This is not what I would wish but it is a fact that is is a consequence of choosing other then authenticity because life will rip those masks off our faces in the hour of our need if we choose to wait until that time to remove them. But why not live today authentically. Why not love today even though it may hurt tomorrow? Why deny the treasure of today for the illusion of tomorrow?
An umbrella can stop your head from getting wet but your feet still walk in the water no matter the efforts to deny it. The rain will fall in all of our lives and we can choose to lift our faces to feel the drops fall or pretend to hide and deny it pouring all around us.
That’s all for now folks! Have an amazing weekend and if you as well have found yourself at the receiving end of sorrow from a similar situation my heart is with you.
I love you all unconditionally. Because I can. Take it or leave it. It makes no difference to me as the joy I get comes from the simple act of loving. The pain of denied love is temporary compared with the pain of never having loved or worse of having disrespected such a precious and rare treasure upon this earth for any worldly thing. This much I know to be true in my heart.
The Every Moment Mystic 