[blockquote source=”Paulo Coelho”]“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”[/blockquote]

Emotions can be awfully tricky, can’t they?

While sitting in a movie, or reading through our favorite book – we welcome the deep throws of these emotional waves.

And yet, while sitting alone and pondering our loneliness – we hate the very thing they represent.

Ironic, isn’t it?

I used to become so distressed by my emotions. I suppose stemming from my much younger years, in which my older brother teased me incessantly for my snifflings.

And, as I grew older I found that society wasn’t very welcoming of them either. “Stop being so sensitive,” the others would say – and always in the most disapproving of ways.

It seems, even from a very early age we are conditioned to keep things tightly bottled up inside. But, then…where does this leave us really?

Perhaps, in denial of the very aspect of our spirit that most needs our attention. We forget the true value in our experience of these emotions.

In Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche’s article, “Remedying a Shaky Mind” he offers,

“Basically what turns an experience into being painful or not, is acceptance or non-acceptance, and how you view it. The sensation itself does not really determine so much one way or the other whether it is felt as painful or not. And who is it who wants it or does not want it, anyway? It is of course the ego. When the ego wants it, pain can actually become pleasure. When ego doesn’t want it, then that same experience will be considered as painful. When you really understand this clearly, then you no longer have to be afraid of physical or emotional sensations.

Instead, it makes more sense to be afraid of what it is that causes you to block the experience. We should always be able to recognize the one who is rejecting an experience with so much aversion, and with such attachment to that aversion. In this, we feel such a strong attachment to the self. This is the ego we all have that is spoiled rotten, and yet so powerful. That is what we need to be concerned about.”

Oh certainly, we may feel initially lost or swept away – but, in time, there is something magnificent waiting to be revealed. In the ashes of past hurt, we find the embers of resilience – and, in the sifting through our past pain, we discover our most authentic self.

And, what could be better than this? A straight shot pathway to the greatest part of you.

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

My dears, have a little faith that everything will be ok – and trust in this experience of you, knowing you.

I promise you it’ll be the journey of a lifetime ~

Love, and blessings my dears…and here’s to those undiscovered roads.