I love you. The Invitation #10

 The Fire.

This chapter vividly talks about the transformation in our lives, however painful, to feel the flames and rise from the ashes.

 

It doesn't interest me who you know

or how you come to be here.

I want to know if you will stand 

in the center of the fire

with me

and not shrink back.

"SOMETIMES WE GO OUT AND SEEK the fire that will burn away what is dross in our lives. More often we awaken suddenly to find ourselves encircled by flame. Intense experiences of the heart transform us. I want to know if you can stand with me, eyes wide open, when the fire- asked for or unbidden- consumes all we think we know. I want to know if you will offer yourself as fuel for the flames and let the Mystery we seek, the Divine we long for, which comes in unpredictable ways, consume and transform you." 

~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer

If the above words don't yet move you. I will say this;

Transformation is about breaking and burning, our persona to break our boundaries beyond our physical persona. To become a larger form to an even larger form to be inclusive of everyone and everything around us, to no form and to live an ordinary life. The ordinary life is already beautiful and is accessible to all. All that is left, is allowing our love to direct our actions to enjoy this ordinary life. Do not take our persona and our existing form too seriously. Fool around more. 

That is transformation. Namaste.