Underneath it all

This road we are all on feels full of peril and drought. 

I am here to remind you it is not. 

I am here to remind you of the generosity and kindness of all of life. 

I know this life is not always easy. 

I know it comes with a tremendous amount of betrayal and hardship and misunderstanding of self. 

I know when you were most vulnerable and in need of being most understood you perhaps were not. 

I know when your heart was maybe hurt instead of held. 

I know we can lash out from this fear and hurt. 

We are doing what has been shown to us. 

Modelled by those caught in their hurt parts, and their pains. 

Behind all inflicted anger and pain is a trembling fear, an accidental protection mechanism placed over our hearts. 

We are all here in this space learning to heal what was accidentally scarred and broken. 

This is the universal pain we are each trying to lift up and remove from the tissues it has lodged itself in. 

We all carry the scars. 

Though we are strangers we are kindred in spirit. 

There is no difference between us, we are the same. 

And we have grown tired of living under the weight of our restricted spirit. 

And it is this that has led you here. 

This is why we pause, still our minds, and listen more deeply. To create space, recalibrate, and remember. 

There is a loving, unaffected presence underneath. You know there is. 

Leading us each to this same place within. 

We are here now in the name of our hearts, in opening, in unstitching what has in time closed within. 

Reuniting with our soft centres. 

It is the place we are most alive, most accepted, most whole. 

It is where we seek refuge from the world. 

Even in our greatest despair, we are not just held, but uplifted, encouraged, shown the truth underneath it all. 

No matter the size or source of pain there is a stillness. A place of deep love always trying to lift you above the unconscious pain you are forced to feel. 

Enter the peace that is. You know it’s there.  

Breath. 

Begin to look for that piece of you that brought you here to yourself. 

That piece of you that holds you when you arrive here. 

That piece of you that opens up to you no matter the mud on your clothes. 

If you have yet to come to know this part of you, then breath and sense and reach out to meet your essence. Let it spill into you. 

And hold that source for a moment with love and honour and gratitude. 

Let it soothe and smooth away any tension and pain. 

Allow it to love you. 

Receive its love. 

This is within you, no matter where life has led you. 

This is within you eternally and unconditionally. 

Always, whenever you wish to let go of the illusions. 

I am here to remind you of the voice that has led you here and that knows all of this already. 

The voice helping to give to you all that was not given to you when you needed it most. 

Engage often and completely in the relief that is given you when you take the time to arrive here in your space. 

And know that there are countless others working as hard as you are now to do just the same. 

Remembering this will keep us true and encourage a world in the future to behold rather than fear. 

The heart always wins. 

Your heart always wins. 

May you come to know this as truth. 

And may you know you can travel to this place of stillness and healing, across time and space, in a moment.  

May this be the place you choose to operate from as you move through life. 

There is nothing more gracious to know and understand than the kindness operating within you and underneath it all. 

The kindness that is this life you are living. 

—
Andrew.