Staying True To Your Heart Is The Essence Of Life

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Mantenerse fiel a tu corazón es la esencia de la vida

Lago Kerri


¿Sabes cómo la gente se lamenta cuando dice: "¿Es hora de volver a la realidad” o “...sí, pero así no es como funciona el mundo real”? ¿Qué es el mundo real? ¿Quién sugirió que el trabajo, la desesperación y distintos tipos de esclavitud sean "reales"?
Esa desesperación se deriva de una relación con la supervivencia. La humanidad se ha estado alimentando con el mensaje de que la supervivencia es difícil, la supervivencia es buena y la supervivencia del más fuerte es la mejor. Cuando el objetivo de la vida es la supervivencia, todo parece una lucha competitiva.


La vida misma no intenta sobrevivir. La vida engendra vida. La vida se celebra en cada sutileza y en cada arrollamiento. Cada aspecto de la vida permanece abierto y flexible, disponible para lo que pueda ser necesario para su perpetuación. Incluso en un entorno que parece carecer de medios, de alguna manera la vida encuentra su camino.


Como ser humano, con este procesador súper rápido que llamamos mente-cerebro (al que cariñosamente he apodado "Thinkytown" o "Thinky Town" si lo prefieres), tienes la opción en cada momento de mirar a tu alrededor y ver la supervivencia o mirar alrededor y ver la vida. Estarás en lo cierto de cualquier manera. Encontrarás ambos.


¡Para algun@s, tener razón lo es todo! Es toda su vida. No saben quiénes son sin luchar por tener razón. Entonces, dejemos que tengan razón y luego preguntemos: "muéstrame la verdad".


La verdad está en el reino del corazón. No encontrarás sólo una Verdad correcta o una Verdad incorrecta que el corazón aisle, provocándote con un enigma irresoluble tras otro, llamándolo 'el mundo real'. La verdad es un sentimiento. Se te presenta con ausencia de conflicto, con una ligereza que no requiere defensa y no ofrece ofensa. Dar la bienvenida a una relación con la verdad es dar la bienvenida a una intimidad de la que no puedes esconderte. Viniendo de un mundo construido para priorizar la supervivencia, la intimidad con cualquier cosa puede parecer como si te persiguiera un francotirador.


Cuanto más avanzas, menos quieres ocultar. La verdad ofrecida a través del corazón tiene esta manera de darle la vuelta a la supervivencia. El corazón dice: "Te veo y no ofrezco ningún conflicto". Desde ese punto de vista, la supervivencia se revela muy rápidamente como un enfoque terriblemente ineficiente ante la vida. En la ligereza del corazón, todas las pegajosas necesidades de la supervivencia y los enredados "sí, pero" se topan entre sí en una comedia a la par de Larry, Moe y Curly.


Ésta es la esencia de la vida. Ligereza del ser. La supervivencia no sabe dónde buscar la ligereza. “Thinkytown” no podría retenerla, aunque lo intentara. Pero el corazón conoce su música.
En la levedad del ser hay espacio para todo. No se excluye nada, ni siquiera la necesidad más pegajosa y crujiente que cae sobre tu cabeza, polvorienta después de estar un par de décadas en el estante superior donde alguien la dejó.


Blog de Kerri: https://www.kerrilake.com/kerri-lake-blog/true-to-your-heart


PREGUNTAS SEMILLA PARA LA REFLEXIÓN: ¿Cómo te relacionas con la noción de que la verdad está en el reino del corazón? ¿Puedes compartir una historia personal de una ocasión en la que sentiste la verdad a través de la ausencia de conflicto, una ligereza que no requería defensa y no ofrecía ofensa? ¿Qué te ayuda a acoger una relación con la verdad?
Seed Questions for Reflection

How do you relate to the notion that truth is in the realm of the heart? Can you share a personal story of a time you felt truth through an absence of conflict, a lightness that required no defense and offered no offense? What helps you welcome a relationship with truth?

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9 Past Reflections
BL
Jan 19, 2025

Time to discard those old cloaks.
Cloaks of ideas, of who is greater than.

They do not fit you,
stop that looking from afar

at the shiny, fluid cloaks
of this or that star.

If you can weep
and jump with joy to their music,
then you can make your own!

Feel those strings, pulling?
Oh yes, pulling, not away from anything,

but rewinding themselves
into your own now-flesh.

Pulling red through veins
longing to get out again.

Enter deeply into your storied days
until all the hues of your life seep out,

colouring the beauty of you,
to emerge and fly about.

Weave again your own cloak ever new,
shining like the stars inside of you.
MA
Maja
Jan 15, 2025
Thank you, Kerri for reminding us, that we were granted this precious Life to be true to our Heart anywhere, anytime. So grateful for your generous genuine heart!
EB
Erica Brosnan
Jan 14, 2025
Through my journey, I have learned how the power of truth is just as boundless as the power of the heart. As long as I can follow the rhythm of my heart, my truth is always closely kept. But not kept in the way that feels like survival or fear. Like knowing every step we take together will only deepen our bond and connection. I hold my truth within my heart, but I also let it go, in order to receive it again. The heart stays open so every path is made of growth, even if I start out a little lost, I am ever-found(ed) in my truth time and time again.
BM
Bob McManimon-Moe
Jan 14, 2025
Whilst I have experienced many similar insights on my journey down the road to truth, I have also found that I cannot live unless I first survive by which I mean I see no duality between them. I may lapse at times into mental foo foo born of being overly focused on survival unnecessarily, "but" I can easily do the same "living" too long in what I call the bliss of emotional truth. One might be seen as social while the other is about the self. I am not an ascetic nor am I in need of power or fame. I am imperfect and human, so I seek truth in balance and strive to do so in all things....
JP
Jan 10, 2025
This passage Staying True To Your Heart Is the Essence of Life authored by Kerri Lake opens the window of my Heart, the window of Unconditional Love, the window of Awakening. The mind has a tendency to divide and dispute. The heart unites us. Heart is the center of pure love, unfiltered truth. Love and Truth unite us and create a sense of Oneness. Truth is always open. There is no need to hide from the truth. Truth always unites us. Truth makes us the citizens of the universe, the children of God. When my mind is not filled with noises like right and wrong, mine and thine, rich and poor, black and white I see the Light of Oneness, Light of Unitive Consciousness, Light of Transcendental Awareness. I see Oneness in Manyness. This is my relationship with the Divine Truth. This is an awakened state of Consciousness. There are times when I go through the state of inner blindness and I do not see the light of awakening. I go inwardly blind. I get divided within myself. This is a wa... View full comment
DD
Jan 10, 2025
Life is not 'trying to survive.' Life is surviving and celebrating. Survival is basic and is a start followed by celebration. Truth is one's sincere, open, honest view which I see as the realm of the heart. There are times that I have been very content in my truth and there was absence of conflict which included a nonfighting sense that my truth is my truth whether the other agrees or not, and felt a lightness without defense or offense. What helps me appreciate such times is the many times that I have held onto my truth while being defensive and ready to fight. What helps me welcome a relationship with truth is increase in openness to learn, increase in acceptance of others and different viewpoints, increase in comfort with self.
HA
Jan 9, 2025
This writing is beyond helpful to me. Since the earliest realization that I was expected to "make my way in the world," survival was the foremost consideration. I have been miserable in most of the 'jobs' I have ever had because I felt, physically, my enslavement to a system that serves only itself. My solution - which I will not state here, but which is extremely risky, though in all ways legal/moral/ethical - is now endangered more than ever. But for the first time, I am glad I made the choices I did, reading this perspective. THANK YOU!
AJ
AJ Jan 14, 2025
Amen Hannah!
BS
Jan 9, 2025
My heart is my being, my being is open to Love. What helps me is listening and learning about the mystery of life.