Whispering – Joseph and Maia (7 Layers)
reflection.
today, my body is wrecked,
they told she is giving up on me,
told, soon enough she’s going to collapse, done and dusted.
only now i realize how stupid i was to have sold myself to naysayers, to have taken everything for granted, to have ignored…
ignored the subtle, palpable beauty of my young life, born with me, forever within me, all along.
Ostaseski writes:
❝Dying is inevitable and intimate. I have seen ordinary people at the end of their lives develop profound insights and engage in a powerful process of transformation that helped them to emerge as someone larger, more expansive, and much more real than the small, separate selves they had previously taken themselves to be. This is not a fairy-tale happy ending that contradicts the suffering that came before, but rather a transcendence of tragedy…. I have witnessed a heart-opening occurring in not only people near death, but also their caregivers. They found a depth of love within themselves that they didn’t know they had access to. They discovered a profound trust in the universe and the reliable goodness of humanity that never abandoned them, regardless of the suffering they encountered. If that possibility exists at the time of dying, it exists here and now.