Hello brothers and sisters
I wanted to share with you here something beautiful that's happened to me; it isn't a trip report, its a life report.
Before I began on my path, a journey I've shared here with you throughout, I was in a bad place in my life. My career was tanking; I was in a destructive relationship and I had suffered long term chronic depression for my entire adult life. I had a failed marriage and a lot of hurt people with my footprints on them. I was lost.
My journeys within brought me face to face with the inner structures of self that were shaping my life, and those that were holding me back. I was shown my fear and self-loathing, the roots of my self-destruction but, one by one, the stripes on my soul were salved.
The journeys were complex, confusing, terrifying, overwhelming - as they are - but each one was taking me a step towards my true self, and my true path in this world.
Over the months, things began to change. Sometimes it was subtle - I became more tuned in to the needs of others and set out to nurture and no longer neglect those I loved and cared for; and sometimes it was dramatic - the destructive relationship ended suddenly, with great honesty. The depression lifted, and has not once since returned. My career revived.
And last night I met my soulmate. I fell completely and utterly in love with the woman I have been waiting for all my life. I knew it with such clarity, with such total certainty, that this was the one that was for me, and that I was the one here for her. I have never experienced anything so beautiful and powerful, to fall in love so instantly, so completely, without doubt or fear or second guess. It is uncanny; she is my perfect mate. If you were to have asked me down to the last detail what I was looking for in a woman, the tiniest things that I would barely dare to hope for, it would be her. I have to pinch myself; its almost like I've invented her; she is perfect.
This is one grateful, lucky son of a bitch, sharing here the immense power of this sacrament to bring change into our lives. Because I know this would not have happened if I had not done the work that I did, Within.
Many thanks to you all, and much love.
"at journey's end, we must begin again"