Love In Action – The Wild Heart

What is it to truly live?

We live thinking we know what life is and yet from the moment we were born we learnt to disassociate, mask and protect ourselves in order that we could separate ourselves from pain and have our needs met.

Great courage is required to embrace life, to meet it – in all its wild and uncompromising beauty, to open, surrender, allow the fullness of our vulnerability, to truly be present, to not run, distract or somehow otherwise numb ourselves. Tragically many people spend their whole lives doing this, numbing or avoiding pain, chasing after the next ‘thing’ that will apparently fix them and their lives. But there is no healing in running, no resolution to be found in avoidance. To heal we need be willing to embrace ourselves and life with compassion, be open, honest, here – with life as it IS.

We live diminished lives because we fear to fully embrace life. We fear relinquishing control, letting go, trusting, feeling safe to be here, vulnerable, to show ourselves without shame. Somehow, we fear our wildness, our passion, our aliveness, will be judged, rejected, or condemned, but our wildness is the key to our inner freedom, our greatest pleasure, the truth of what it really is to be alive.

Our wild-heart opens us to what is real, connected, vibrant, radically alive and awakens us from out of ‘conformity’ to the programs of ‘fear’ and ‘control’, which have governed our behaviours, kept us apparently safe and ‘deadened’ us to life. Our wild-heart opens us to what past mystics and true lovers of life have named the ecstatic;  not the ‘artificial bliss’ of our systems numbed to pain, seeking escape, but the bliss of true embodied living, open-hearted, fully present here.

Our Wild Heart, our authenticity, and vulnerability – opens us to what it is to truly live.