An Obesity of Grief

I don’t know if every spiritual experience requires suffering, but I would guess that it does, at least on some level. For the ego to collapse, for us to leave behind the story of who we think we are in order to step into the beloved darkness where there are no boundaries we have to say goodbye to something we have known, maybe even something we have treasured. And in every goodbye there is grief. But there is also solace that comes when we are ready to be honest with who we are, with our brokenness, because in it we find the healing in other people. This is the meaning of a spiritual community. As bad as we might believe we are individually no one is going to turn away, rather there is a turning towards one another. You are suffering. Mmm, I, too, know suffering.

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An Obesity of Grief is an episode from Meditations by Ian White Maher: Praise | Gratitude | Joy | Transformation by Ian White Maher.

This episode is 9:41 long.

This episode was published on Nov 18, 2016.

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