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It is clear to see
and sometimes painful to watch the throes of agony he endures in order to know. He says he will quit soon because exhaustion and this endless torment might be getting the best of him. On some afternoons still he knocks on the door of someone who appears to know. This one who appears to know has burned all of her books taken her certificates down and protests loudly to have only the knowledge of nothing at all. She shares this lack of knowledge along with cups of peppermint-nettles-nothing tea. Sometimes the visitor cries hard because of his belly full of dredged-up grief sometimes because of his unresolved joy occasionally he laughs out loud at his own folly and is precious and earnest if nothing else. Mostly, he comes for the tea. This is known by the one who knows nothing based upon often finding the empty cup placed mindfully on the table by the door.
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The invitation is to leave it alone. To let life be. To know yourself as being lived. That is what is happening here. Life is alive as you, through your breath, through your being. Don't look for it elsewhere. It does you and undoes you, over and over again. You are not the doer. Stop claiming that you are, and your relentless despair of knowing you are not, will dissolve. The belief in the doer, is what deadens you, and crushes your heart. And yet you fear death. The only death you will ever know is this lifeless longing. Question these beliefs, awaken from them, and live it out loud. Then you will know yourself as boundless life, as freedom, and your body will age and die fully alive, without regret, endlessly beautiful.
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CategoriesAnalisa Domenica is in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and therapeutic touch for comfort care and pain release. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.
'Li' lives and works in Mill Spring, NC, a stone or two's throw from Asheville, NC and Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. She also works globally via phone and zoom. You may reach her by phone at 828.429.0096 or write to her by clicking here. |
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