The Quality of One's Heart

The unglamorous, unexotic truth is that deep and profound evolution is only possible when we show up to our own individual shadow work. The places where we harbor emotional injury, self judgment and inauthenitic ways of engaging bar us from true evolution. Showing up to these dark places is the only way to authentic participation.
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If the capacity to be present in one's heart, to gain greater and greater depth in one's ability to show up to oneself feels like the way to true presence- then the road home leads in, not out to some spiritual philosophy.

Jessica Thayer December. 12, 2008