Comments on: Do Not Betray Your Soul http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/ Stop Playing Small Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:44:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: lifecoachsandy http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-531 lifecoachsandy Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:27:43 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-531 Thank you for sharing of your deepest most vulnerable truth. I applaud your courage for walking through the fire and coming out the other side stronger. It takes a special strength to do that, one that eludes most. Thank you for sharing of your deepest most vulnerable truth. I applaud your courage for walking through the fire and coming out the other side stronger. It takes a special strength to do that, one that eludes most.

]]> By: Norman http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-528 Norman Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:23:23 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-528 If love is fleeting, unsustainable, ephemeral, then it is only the ghost of love, just a painless hiccup from the heart, gone before you even realize it was there.<br>But when you can gaze deeply into someone’s eyes and say “I love you,” mean every word, feel your heart ache and know that it is real, that is true and lasting love. Love is complex and layered, and no two relationships take the same path. Sometimes you love deeply and get hurt. It’s normal for our past experiences to make us cautious in our new love. Every time new love grows with longing, when you have a day where you feel your souls melding, when you hold each other and your heart doesn’t want to let go, your mind can invoke the past hurt and shrivel from today’s ecstasy. The pain that comes then is from the heart straining to fly while the mind fears to commit. To be true to your heart, to your soul, you first have to listen without fear.<br>Yes, I have no fear of looking like a fool for love, to pursue when others would have given up. Because I felt something that was real, that filled my soul down to my toes. I too have been hurt before, but those hurts have taught me to cherish love wherever it may appear, to run after love with abandon, and to know that tomorrow I will be dancing under the stars with someone who means the world to me. Anything less would be a betrayal to my soul. If love is fleeting, unsustainable, ephemeral, then it is only the ghost of love, just a painless hiccup from the heart, gone before you even realize it was there.
But when you can gaze deeply into someone’s eyes and say “I love you,” mean every word, feel your heart ache and know that it is real, that is true and lasting love. Love is complex and layered, and no two relationships take the same path. Sometimes you love deeply and get hurt. It’s normal for our past experiences to make us cautious in our new love. Every time new love grows with longing, when you have a day where you feel your souls melding, when you hold each other and your heart doesn’t want to let go, your mind can invoke the past hurt and shrivel from today’s ecstasy. The pain that comes then is from the heart straining to fly while the mind fears to commit. To be true to your heart, to your soul, you first have to listen without fear.
Yes, I have no fear of looking like a fool for love, to pursue when others would have given up. Because I felt something that was real, that filled my soul down to my toes. I too have been hurt before, but those hurts have taught me to cherish love wherever it may appear, to run after love with abandon, and to know that tomorrow I will be dancing under the stars with someone who means the world to me. Anything less would be a betrayal to my soul.

]]> By: ss http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-525 ss Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:55:11 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-525 that poem is my life- i have lived it and know it well, deeply, in my bones, and in my soul. i have gotten up, after many a night of being weary and bruised to the bone and done what i have to for my children. i have stood strong and true to myself in the face of knowing that the path i had chosen was a hard and tortuous path to follow. i have learned that being true to myself and my soul is paramount, and the only way in which i can live at peace, look at my reflection in the mirror and be proud of myself and my accomplishments in the face of adversity. <br><br>i wrote this in middle of walking through my fire- <br><br>struggling to breathe<br>a weight<br>crushing my chest. all alone<br>in a sea of swirling mists.<br>perilously<br>searching for safe passage<br>can there be hope <br>with so much<br>agony. evil. uncertainty.<br>i entreat you. help. please.<br>from the depth<br>from the core of my being<br>what is my life.<br><br>and i made it through. true to myself. strong. victorious. that poem is my life- i have lived it and know it well, deeply, in my bones, and in my soul. i have gotten up, after many a night of being weary and bruised to the bone and done what i have to for my children. i have stood strong and true to myself in the face of knowing that the path i had chosen was a hard and tortuous path to follow. i have learned that being true to myself and my soul is paramount, and the only way in which i can live at peace, look at my reflection in the mirror and be proud of myself and my accomplishments in the face of adversity.

i wrote this in middle of walking through my fire-

struggling to breathe
a weight
crushing my chest. all alone
in a sea of swirling mists.
perilously
searching for safe passage
can there be hope
with so much
agony. evil. uncertainty.
i entreat you. help. please.
from the depth
from the core of my being
what is my life.

and i made it through. true to myself. strong. victorious.

]]> By: lifecoachsandy http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-524 lifecoachsandy Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:45:03 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-524 Yes, in fact, I can gaze deeply into someone's eyes and say "I love you", and mean every word in the moment. I can feel my heart aching and know that it is real. And I can also trust that my heart knows my truth, and that love is complex and layered. <br><br>If the moment passes and love is fleeting, that love was not deep enough to sustain. I have ignored that in the past, and lived with regret, feeling that I was untrue to my heart. It is not fair to me or to the man I am in relationship with to continue. <br><br>And so, I am listening, as you say, to what my heart tells me in love. As painful as that might be. Yes, in fact, I can gaze deeply into someone's eyes and say “I love you”, and mean every word in the moment. I can feel my heart aching and know that it is real. And I can also trust that my heart knows my truth, and that love is complex and layered.

If the moment passes and love is fleeting, that love was not deep enough to sustain. I have ignored that in the past, and lived with regret, feeling that I was untrue to my heart. It is not fair to me or to the man I am in relationship with to continue.

And so, I am listening, as you say, to what my heart tells me in love. As painful as that might be.

]]> By: Norman http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-523 Norman Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:28:37 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-523 Can you gaze deeply into the eyes of someone and say "I love you," then blame your mind for those words?<br><br>Can you feel your heart aching to call someone, then let your mind tell you it won't work?<br><br>Does your soul reside in your mind and its fears of what might happen, or in your heart that wants to fly, even if you might get hurt?<br><br>Listen to what your heart tells you in love and you will dance to a warmth that rivals the sun. Listen to what your mind tells you in love and you will be left with only the embers of what could have been. Can you gaze deeply into the eyes of someone and say “I love you,” then blame your mind for those words?

Can you feel your heart aching to call someone, then let your mind tell you it won't work?

Does your soul reside in your mind and its fears of what might happen, or in your heart that wants to fly, even if you might get hurt?

Listen to what your heart tells you in love and you will dance to a warmth that rivals the sun. Listen to what your mind tells you in love and you will be left with only the embers of what could have been.

]]> By: lifecoachsandy http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-522 lifecoachsandy Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:13:54 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-522 Ronna-<br>Thanks for warming my heart with your beautiful response. Today is a blogging lovefest! How apropos following that Hallmark holiday, Valentine's Day! Back at you, girl! Ronna-
Thanks for warming my heart with your beautiful response. Today is a blogging lovefest! How apropos following that Hallmark holiday, Valentine's Day! Back at you, girl!

]]> By: ronnadetrick http://www.abiggerpond.com/2010/02/do-not-betray-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-521 ronnadetrick Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:21:35 +0000 http://www.abiggerpond.com/?p=720#comment-521 Your reflections on this poem only elevate my gratitude for it - and for you. Thanks for writing, for linking back to me, and for your powerful statement: ...I know that a life of severe compromise of the soul is a life I can not choose.<br><br>I'm SO with you on this, Sandy! No more compromising AND much, much passion, joy, and life!<br><br>'Appreciate you. Your reflections on this poem only elevate my gratitude for it – and for you. Thanks for writing, for linking back to me, and for your powerful statement: …I know that a life of severe compromise of the soul is a life I can not choose.

I'm SO with you on this, Sandy! No more compromising AND much, much passion, joy, and life!

'Appreciate you.

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