Transience

We talk about opening our heart, but hearts aren't meant to be open all the time. They open, they close. If they were open all the time, we'd get stomped all over, it just isn't realistic.

Feelings come and go. You feel sad, you grieve, the feeling leaves and you remember. You have an experience of intense happiness, you celebrate, you enjoy, the feeling leaves and you remember. You feel betrayed, you hurt, the feeling leaves and you remember.

You feel deeply loved, you blossom, you open to it, the feeling leaves and you remember. Love is a feeling that fills you to the brim (and sometimes overflows) but feelings, by nature, are like our breath - they flow in and out.

Love is transient by nature, it is commitment which endures.

In some ways there isn't anything special about all those feelings - we each experience them, they come, they go. But there is something very special about commitment. It is like our minds connecting with Soul - we recognize that life, like our very breath, is a constant process of change. When we honor it by sticking to the feelings as they happen, that's commitment, a commitment to Now and that is something that takes alot of strength. It's easy to stay to something when you're all high on a feeling. But when that first buzz starts to dwindle, that's when it's important to stay present with it - that's staying power; that's commitment.

It is here that the transient nature of feeling is as natural as the sunrise and the sunset, and yet here is where the most love is experienced because there is no fear.

Blessings.
- Darshan



© 2010 Darshan F Jessop