What we do or what roles we play are often essential and life-giving to us and to others. But often we over-identify with these things we are doing it in order to cover up some sense of unworthiness, wounds of our past, or shame. These layers are layers of false self, and block our ability to see and live out of our true selves.
In this episode, we will notice something in our lives that we have over-identified with and let it go, so it can be put back in its proper place and not allow it to define who we are. We will use an image of a drop of water found in our artwork on this podcast to symbolize us coming back to our true selves - settling, resting. Contemplata in Latin means to see, and the Pause process is a collection of contemplative practices helping us to shed the layers that are blocking our ability to see our true self.
In our listen section of the Pause, I will read a poem by Derek Wolcott called "Love After Love"
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image form the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
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