Sufi Wisdom. As The Strong Gentle Heart Turns.
Excerpted from the forthcoming A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020) by Matt Licata "Increased awareness is critical and necessary, but for most it is not enough to shift the intergenerational trances of habitual consciousness. Many of us have quite a lot of insight into our embedded patterns and “know” what we need to do to heal, to awaken, to transform. But despite all this “knowing,” fundamental change can remain elusive. At some point it may be only a turning of the heart which has the power and beauty and poetic impact to soothe the cosmic exhaustion, wounds, and pain of an unlived life, where love is revealed to be the ultimate medicine that can penetrate the deepest layers of our conditioning and felt sense of separation. What this “turning of the heart” means in lived, embodied experience for each of us must be discovered in the fire of our own lives. To open to our pain, grief, and longing and allow the allies to reveal...