Breaking Open to New Beginnings

When people talk about awakening, they often describe light, clarity and peace.

But the beginning does not feel like that. It feels like loss.” Awakening begins

when the life you built from fear can no longer hold you. The friendships,

the habits, the ways you avoided yourself — they fall away. This feels like

something is going wrong. But it is the opposite. Something is going right.

The pain comes from realizing you can no longer return to who you were. But you do not yet

know who you are becoming. You are standing in the doorway between worlds.

The old identity dissolves first. The new identity emerges last. And in between,