Falling (apart)

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« The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like».
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Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos.
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In these words, I dwell.
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Learning to be skillful in falling is an important practice in the Art of living.
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The Art of being Human, in its full humanity.
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No need to deny or pretend (positive) emotions or that we have it all under control (#spiritualbypassing) as this is highly unlikely to be the truth, even for a yogi or anybody dedicated to the introspective journeys.
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Falling (symbolically and at times physically) is bound to happen over and over.
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Immense wisdom can emerge in these fountains of humility though.
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It hurts, it can hurt so badly when we fall. I well know...
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I always question myself: is there anything to explore in this? Can I be open to this too? Can I explore this too with the same sense of curiosity i would naturally have in easier times?
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Sometimes I can.
Sometimes I cannot.
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And c’est comme ça.
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The process of falling is learning to be human in some ways.
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No need to runaway.
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Here, that’s right, here is always the space to explore.
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Could we even stop our natural urge to transform immediately our falling into something else?
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Because transforming is also bound to happen, in the same way we are bound to fall.
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The contraction is always followed with an expansion, before the contraction happens again.
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And it goes like that, around and around. Over and over.
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Life.
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The pulse of Life.
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Hopefully in this process, these pulses (#spanda ) are absorbed, digested in their own pace, thanks to our sophisticated systems to help us with a new phase in our lives whatever this phase, moment, hour, second is.
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It does not have to be positive or negative.
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A pulse of Life does not have the color of polarity. It is, it just is.
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No linearity. Instead circularity and spiraling.
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The valleys exist because there are peaks.
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That’s just Nature, our nature. Our humanity.
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Yoga is probably also that radical acceptance.
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Trust and be open to the falling is my practice.
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In humility, I bow to the immensity of what I do not know. 🕊🤍🕊
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📸 by my talented friend @axellea2l