Everything that has a beginning must also have an end, and every end is also a new beginning. So there is really no point in stressing out and worrying, because life has a natural way of taking care of these things, and tying up loose ends whenever they are meant to be tied up and it is time for them to be tied up.
Life has a way of naturally bringing things to the surface, and raising things up to a boiling point when it is time. Everything in nature has that about it. Every living being and every living thing- it is fascinating when you really think about it.
So these days, when I wake up and my skin is more irritated than the day before, I know that it will pass. Just like the sun sets every night and rises again in the morning, so too, my flares have ends and beginnings. And eventually, they will blend together so much that I wont even notice them, and then they will disappear altogether. It is inevitable at this point, because the healthy energy within me continues to grow as I continue to nourish it.
Every thought, every emotion, every belief starts out as a seed – and we can choose whether or not we want that seed to grow by nourishing it and watering it. Although there are many more facets to it and many different factors at play, we do still have that choice. And we have the choice at any time to dig up the seed again, plucking it by its root, and examine where it is rooted. We are no different than a tree, or a plant, or a flower.
But just like a tree, once we get to a certain height and growth, our level of perception from that higher state can never go back to a lower one. We are aware of It of course, it exists within our roots and our stem, so to speak, but we never quite go back to seeing life in the same way as we did when we were a tiny little tree, just starting to grow. We now see every building and the top of it, and how it connects to the sky, whereas before we could only maybe see the doors and the windows, and may not have even known there was a sky. Awakening, too, is much like that, as is growth. Once you reach a certain point, you can’t exactly just shrink back down – it doesn’t work that way. You aren’t Alice in wonderland. Or are you? Well to a point you certainly are, but as all things in nature, once you grow, you continue to grow. You then shed what needs to be shed every season or every cycle, and then begin again at the start of the next cycle.
Everything in nature is cyclical – from the smallest to the largest organism. But we have to remember once we do get to that certain, height, that certain perspective or level of growth, to never forget how we got there. But never allow it to consume us again. It just simply blends into our roots and our stem, becoming a part of us, and we carry it, but we do not allow it to become us. Our past and experiences are much like that, too. We carry them within our dna, blood, bones, but we don’t have to allow them to consume us or be emotionally attached to them. When it is fall, and leaves are to start falling off of a tree, a tree does not resist it, it simply allows it to happen. It does not worry about where the leaf will go, or whether or not it needs to fall. And it certainly isnt shaken by the falling away of it. It remains stable, rooted, whole, and pure in itself. Rooted down into mother earth, but still reaching towards the sky. It is true that we have a lot to learn from trees. We are like anything else in this world. They are graceful and secure in their letting go, knowing they will rebuild again next cycle. They need not worry about whether they will re grow, they know they will when it is time again.
It is odd, how humans are much different than that. We resist change and cycles so much, we want to bypass so many things in life, when it is all meant to be embraced. Just like the tree that embraces the snow on top of it, we too, should accept and embrace the more quiet, still parts of us and nature the same way. Yet we do everything to try to avoid it. We want the sun to come back, we want the warmth. Yet we know that it will come again next spring and everything will bloom again. But we still complain, and we still worry, even knowing these simple rules of life at our core. A tree would never grow if it didn’t shed, and neither would a human being. It is a glorious world we live in, when we can see this. Life is constantly unfolding all around us, and we can choose to either be in the flow or to continue to try to resist it and cause ourselves more pain and suffering. We always have the choice to put down the burden, and trust the cycles of life and the universe. Even when it is dark, even when it is stormy, there is a place within us – so still, so quite, so serene. just like nature, when you are in the middle of a forest or away from busy streets.
Our core essence is stillness, quietness, and peace, and nothing can take that from us unless we allow it to. If it comes, let it, and if it goes, let it.