Dear Ones!
Just before Christmas I finished this painting above. I call her ‘Eve’ as to me she symbolizes the primordial mother of us all. The embodiment and activation of the heart, of love. On her face there is a mixture of ecstasy and pain, of dignity and pride…a woman who is willing to surrender herself to the Divine.
I feel she is fitting for what I would love to wish you and us all this next year.
Love.
Not the over-talked, over-used version of it. Not what Hollywood made out of it, and also not what the New Age and Healing Industry made out of it.
But that very sweet and un-assuming sensation of goodness and peace inside. That simple choice that we can make each day: to stay open. To stay in our body and be humble enough to know that we may not know.
It's a very intimate thing. It's what we do inside without getting any likes or claps for it. And yet it's what brings us dignity.
It's also called redemption. And we all need it.
We can make that choice to forgive, because that is the foundation and root of love.
No matter how much we feel we have strayed or others have strayed or the world has strayed….we are and always will be worthy of love. It's our true nature and it's available to us as soon as we decide to believe it and forgive ourselves.
We are the only ones who can say yes to it.
I wish us all to remember that love is not a concept, a nice idea, but a very liveable, tangible reality. One that is more clear to us the more embodied we become. One that becomes more and more apparent when we practice it in all our relations.
In the absence of the mind, love is all there is.
May we feel love
May we breathe love
May we see love
May we hear love
May we act love
May we be moved by love
May we give love
May we remember love
May we know love
May we spread our love
May we bless with our love
and May we be blessed with love.
from my heart to yours,
Kasia
PS: Original painting (100 x 70 cm, acrylic on canvas) and prints are available.
Kasia Patzelt is an Artist, Laughter Yogi, Embodiment and Integration Coach. She helps people to release trauma and learn the art of self-compassion through embodiment practices and creativity.
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