The Universal Language, My Mama & Me

The quote below from Christina Feldman beautifully touches on the sweetness of what has been gradually unfolding between my mama and me over the past year. Over the course of my nearly 30 years of healing and awakening, I had never dreamt that my mother was capable of opening to any degree to her own awakening. Then at the end of November 2012, and immediately following the beginning of her separation from her fourth husband, my mother called and said, "I always knew I would end up out there by you." After 14 years of not seeing one another and a lifetime of pushing away love, here were these shocking and heartfelt words from my mother that she had always known that she would want to end up near me. 

In the midst of deep loss a doorway was presenting itself. Suddenly, after so many years of anguish and loss, this fragile hope, tender love, deep change, and shared awakening was being born out of the crisis of my mother's separation and divorce. Even at age 87, walls that have existed around one's heart for a lifetime can respond to the repeated tenderness of compassion and love. 

Ours is a deeply human story, one which reminds me of the wisdom of Rumi -- "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Miracles happen as we deepen in our capacity to understand and speak the universal language of our hearts. We are greater than our wounds and walls. Under it all is the truth and beauty of our true nature. It is there that we discover, some of us for the first time, the love that will not die. Blessed be.  

♥ Molly

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"Your emotional world is both personal and universal. As you open to the rhythms of your heart, you meet a lifetime's accumulation of sorrow, grief, and hurt. You encounter your capacity for rage, resentment, harshness, and fear. You also meet your capacity for tenderness, intimacy, and joy. The language of your emotions is universal -- grief, sadness, the longing to love and be loved, the capacity to experience and to inflict hurt. The language of your heart teaches you about your interconnectedness and your interdependence. You can reach out to someone who is grieving because you know what grief is. You can comfort someone who is hurt, fearful, or sad because you know the contours of those feelings in your own heart. You can hold another person's sorrow in the tenderness of compassion because you know what it means to be held in the compassion of another." 

- Christina Feldman, Compassion: Listening to the

Cries of the World