Touch

sat nam ( True Identity)

Here we are.
At the heart of it all.
Where all senses are one.
Where life touches us.

The particles of flower pollen touching the nose;
The molecules of a juicy date touching the tongue:
the light bouncing from the mountains at sunset touching the retina
The waves of the bird song touching the eardrum

actually, there is only one sense

“is what we desire in one form or another, even if we find it through being alone, through the agency of silence or through the felt need to walk at a distance: the meeting with something or someone other than ourselves, the light brush of grass on the skin, the ruffling breeze, the actual touch of another's hand; even the gentle first touch of an understanding which until now, we were formally afraid to hold.
Whether we touch only what we see or the mystery of what lies beneath the veil of what we see, we are made for unending meeting and exchange, while having to hold a coherent mind and body, physically or imaginatively, which in turn can be found and touched itself.
We are something for the world to run up against and rub up against: through the trials of love, through pain, through happiness, through our simple everyday movement through the world.

And the world touches us in many ways, some of which are violations of the body or our hopes for safety: through natural disaster, through heartbreak, through illness, through death itself.
In the ancient world the touch of a God was seen as both a blessing and a violation - at one and the same time.
Being alive in the world means being found by that world and sometimes touched to the core in ways we would rather not experience.
Growing with our bodies, all of us find ourselves at one time violated or wounded by this world in difficult ways, and still we live and breathe in this touchable, sensual world, and through trauma, through grief, through recovery, we heal in order to be touched again in the right way, as the physical consecration of a mutual, trusted invitation.
Nothing stops the body's arrival in each new present, except death itself, which is intuited in all cultures as another, ultimate, intimate form of meeting. Nothing stops our aging nor our witness to time, asking us again and again to be present to each different present, to be touchable and findable, to be one who is living up to the very fierce consequences of being bodily present in the world.
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength and betrays a strange misunderstanding of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.”
-DAVID WHYTE
CONSOLATIONS The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

Earth in the Heart Chakra

Are you touchable and findable?

Sending Love,
Simrit- Sarit Maor

KUNDALINI PILGRIM
Consciously Moving
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