Hello amazing friend!
You’ve heard the saying, pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. I think we all experience suffering at some point and to different degrees, and that will depend on how you perceive it and if you can learn from your pain.
Where do you experience suffering? How do you suffer? What suffering has been in your life?
Here are some words to help you uncover it: illness, loneliness, separateness, addictions, obsessions, shame, body, personality, death, doubt, confusion, anger, grudges, unforgiveness, unfairness, unfulfillment, dreams not realized.
This teaching comes from Ram Dass if you want to go deeper.
This all has to do with the mind and the heart.
I leave my heart and I am alone. In between the world in my head and away from my heart, I suffer. The goal is to balance my mind (ego) and my heart (soul).
Be present to the suffering of others, while knowing their suffering is for their growth.
Your suffering is for your growth and awakening. While your body and mind doesn’t enjoy it, your spirit knows it will help you learn.
When your heart closes it’s to protect your mind. Stay open - stay balanced in both mind and heart.
Clinging to anger makes us tight and separate. It’s painful to keep love out of our hearts. We are all often lost and create suffering. See both with warmth and forgiveness. Witness suffering as part of the human condition. To be in both suffering and witness at the same time. Pushing away nothing, clinging to nothing.
Our deepest suffering can be used as vehicles for growth.
Everyone is smiling and under the surface we are all suffering with something.
To see someone else’s beauty, you have to see your own.
Holding onto suffering, wallowing in it, stops the journey. Don’t invite it in, but when it comes, you work with it and transform it.
Anger can be triggered when you understand that a model you had was just disconfirmed. It’s a clue you have a clinging of the mind.
How quickly you can reduce suffering is to let go of who you used to be and be who you are now. (No better or worse). This is hard work!
To stay separate you have to close your heart. That’s too painful. The heart doesn’t know separateness. The heart is unity. The mind is separate.
If you don’t balance your humanity, you burn out.
You armor your heart and then you starve to death. You burn out because you're not getting fed.
Freedom - free awareness in what is. No diversion, no attachment.
Karma is not understandable by the rational mind. You don’t feel the whole universe. This is why faith is so important (not beliefs).
Keep your heart open in hell.
If you require some support, I am here and our first chat is free.
Next inSight will be all about FEELINGS. 😉
All my love,
K 💛
Kristi Hiller
