Sublime

Love and Awakening, John Welwood

In the words of the Indian sage Nisargadatta Maharaj, “Life is love and love is life.”2

The deep feelings we have buried are those which belong to the child we were, the child who was innocent and free and who knew joy until his spirit was broken by being made to feel guilty and ashamed of his natural impulses. That child still lives in our hearts and in our guts but we have lost contact with it, which means we have lost contact with

Aloneness is to be cured by relationships with God and other people.

When we live with the tension of the personal will directed toward an imagined future, we live in a mind-world maze of possibilities instead of the vivid aliveness of intimacy with what is.

school terms, etc. You can observe how the relationship deals with the flow of life of both people. This information is invaluable in helping a couple see what kind of a “fit” they are.

In a society where the family, church, and community are not the support structures they once were, people look to their colleagues for the emotional support a family once provided. This lack of boundaries between the personal and work life is fraught with all sorts of difficulties.

Our individuality is entwined with our connectedness; so the work of healing and growth happens both alone and in relation to others.