Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now. – David Whyte
Today I sat with two beautiful women friends and we leaped from one deep discussion to the next often with laughter and humility. What kept breaking through every topic, whether it was about profession, creativity, men or patterns that seemed to have kept us stuck….was that deep yearning which we jointly decided every human on this planet has within.
The seemingly elusive “missing” piece to the puzzle that makes up our life. Is it love, the Divine, the person or child that we wish to shower our love on and have it returned, being at the peak of our profession, or any number of things that we are chasing after. Kahlil Gibran says, “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course”.
Is it not enough that we open to the life that we have this very moment and find within that moment a glimmer of the missing piece that will “complete us”. In the very act of chasing after this piece we miss that it is always right here – beyond the “refusing” to open, the refusing that this may be the only breath that we will ever take, the refusing to deeply understand that only in this moment are we complete and that there is nothing else beyond it.
I, like you, have been caught up in this eternal chase powered by the deep yearning that resides within, something seemingly deliciously greater than life in the moment. The inability to accept that this single moment is not, as our mind would tell us, lacking in anything at all.
Can we ever know for certain what will reveal itself in the next inhale and exhale? We confront….and then we must surrender. We create….. and then we must rest within that creation.
Simply opening to the life that has been refused again and again…..there rests the missing piece called yearning. Coming home over and over and over…..
“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu
A meditation in yearning, beauty, sensuality, and creativity…..
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Comments on: "The Yearning" (3)
This is lovely, Gaye. I feel so peaceful, having just read it. Thank you!
How are you dear one?! Thank you for such a lovely comment!! Hug! Gaye
Hugs to you, Gaye!