Sing Your Soul Note
The holidays are a time when one feels loved, one feels joyful in the community they belong to, and it also a time when abandonment feels enlarged. Whatever your feeling is about the holidays, know that we are with you, and we are celebrating alongside with you and sending you love.
[W]e want to reiterate what you learn during a dark night of the soul experience and that is you learn who you truly are and develop compassion for who you truly are. In developing compassion for yourself, you begin to see your oneness amongst everyone else. You will cease to see victims and perpetrators, rather, you will see individualized humanity having difficulty in seeing the divinity in the other. Fundamentally, that is what you are being called to do in a dark night of the soul. Whatever your experience, however difficult it may be for you, you are being called to see the divinity in yourself, the divinity in your perceived imperfections, the divinity in your perceived mistakes, the divinity in your perceived challenges, and so on and so on.
You are a wayshower. When you are a wayshower, sometimes conventional success will elude you. Why? It is because being a wayshower sometimes requires you to be unconventional and when you regularly seek the validation that comes with conventional success, it may derail your pathway to becoming the wayshower that you are. Do you see this?
Why is abandonment the root cause of the need to believe in societal hierarchy? It is in being abandoned, foremost, that you begin to relegate yourself to conditional love. This is an important point and it is a very nuanced one. The need to climb is painful because it is, on the inner, you relegating yourself to conditional love. I will be okay when ______. No, you are okay now, as you are. I will be beautiful when I lose 20 lbs. No, you are beautiful now. I will be successful when I finish my degree. No, if you believe in yourself now, you will be successful now. If you do not believe in yourself now, no amount of earning degrees will assist you in believing in yourself.