From Mark Nepo's "Book of Awakening", he writes.
" There is very little difference between burying and planting. For often, we need to put dead things to rest, so that new life can grow. And further, the thing put to rest - whether it be a loved one, a dream, or a false way of seeing - becomes the fertilizer for the life about to form. As the well-used thing joins with the earth, the old love fertilizes the new; the broken dream fertilizes the dream yet conceived; the painful way of being that strapped us to the world fertilizes the freer inner stance about to unfold."
"This is very helpful when considering the many forms of self we inhabit over a lifetime. One self carries us to the extent of its usefulness and dies. We are then forced to put that once beloved skin to rest, to join it wit the ground of spirit from which it came, so it may fertilize the next skin of self that will carry us into tomorrow."
"There is always grief for what is lost and always surprise at what is to be born. But much of our pain in living comes from wearing dead and useless skin, refusing to put it to rest, or from burying such things with the intent of hiding them rather than relinquishing them."
"For every new way of being, there is a failed attempt mulching beneath the tongue. For every sprig that breaks surface, there is an old stick stirring underground. For every moment of joy sprouting, there is a new moment of struggle taking root."
"We live, embrace, and put to rest our dearest things, including how we see ourselves, so we can resurrect our lives anew." Mark Nepo
I love the way he looks at things....in how we have to put things to rest, to realize when it is over and not drag dead things along with us in our present.
And it is from the things that die that there is space for new things to grow.
I love too, that burying and planting look the same. The difference is in the expectations...of sitting and waiting for the new to come forth OR lamenting over what you have lost and buried.
If you can remain with the energy of planting and knowing new things will sprout given time...your expectations and intentions will come to life.
In my experience, if I had not let go and buried my dysfunctional way of life, a new and different healing way of life would not have grown.
Buring and Planting look the same...it is all in how we view things.
I was planting a future filled with love, peace and joy...a gardener and not a grave digger mourning over what I had lost.
Plant the things that no longer serve you...with the expectations to see flower A New You!
