Overcoming is what evolution is about. Stuck in the rut of limits doesn't allow for growth, like a plant in a pot that is root-bound. Our core issues bonsai the expression of what we truly are--beings of love, creativity, energy, compassion and light. While overcoming is part of the human condition, when we do overcome, it creates a torsion that propels us into the next level of awareness, a more joyful one. These levels continue as long as we are consciously seeing the limits and working, in the face of our childhood fears, to prove them wrong.

There is a big problem when the adults we've become are still held prisoner by those core issues--like big babies walking around in adult bodies that still want to have things in a way that is familiar, where we are not afraid. Within most adults is the fear or fears of not being enough in some way--not smart enough, beautiful enough, good enough, skinny enough, or not . . . whatever. There are many variations on a theme, but they all boil down to "not enough" in some way. And in the world one can find many ways to convince oneself that those fears are founded in reality. If you are seeing yourself as not enough, you are lacking and looking to fill that void--and the matrix of money and power makes a profit from it over and over. I've worked most of my adult life to let go of those hyenas of "not enough" nibbling at my consciousness, my sense of self.

I've come to a place where I am at the core of the core of those issues, after tilting and vanquishing those little fear hyenas that attached themselves to that core. This core is the seed of them all, and I see it. I know it, and I'm tired, oh so tired of it. I've looked at where it began. And while seeing it is a big part of the journey of letting go, I'm seeing that the magic of really saying goodbye and liberating myself is in  forgiveness. Deep, authentic forgiveness--of others, myself and the Source of all things. When I allow myself to know that all the players were all doing the very best they could at the time with what they had or understood-really know that deeply in my heart, I begin to truly forgive--saying it in my heart and mind and really meaning it.  Knowing it. There floods in the place where the darkness was, a deep and exuberant love. Love that is so satisfying and joyful that there are no words for it. Love that bring tears of joy. Love that makes you feel clearer, purer, freer.