Heart-Center

Heart-center: 

can I live my life from heart-center, expanding past the borders of my own lines drawn from a lifetime of restraint? That's the question I find myself asking now, sensing that a time has come to let go of past pursuits and enter fully into a wide open heart that holds the entire world. The answer that comes to me is that I really don't know, more so, it's beyond my ability to even understand...

it simply calls for my surrender.

and live my life from there. 

this is the spiritual heart, Hridaya, the true center of existence, recognized within the body but actually being more the universe itself, without boundries, and it's only point is unconditioanl love. It's where I'm called to live from, all of us are really, yet it seems to takes a certain amount of time to recognize this inner urge of returning home, life repeatedly breaking us open until we're ready to live within its spacious hold. The truth is, of course, that we always present in this embrace, it's our reality, but the busyness of everyday life keeps us in a constant state for forgetfulness, and we come to believe ourselves to be more limted than we actually are. 

life continuously breaks us open to a larger reality.

and we then live our lives from here.

and this is where I find myself now, broken up, spacious, and willing to embrace the largeness of the world. It feels as if my entire life was a practice to simply return to its beginning, to what's always been present but missed for so long. 

can I live my life from heart-center?

the question itself is rhetorical in asking.

I've been all along.

and finally recognive the nature of my home. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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