Magic Carpet Life - Episode 5: Marrying Amazement & The Power of Love

Magic Carpet Life: The Podcast

Tell me if this has ever happened to you: you’re moving through your day, going to the post office, meeting someone for coffee, making food in your kitchen… And a question pours in to your consciousness that won’t let you go. You try to honor it by noticing it, writing it down, giving it a voice and find that it’s message has this wildness and intensity, like a big flashing neon light from your innermost place that says PAY ATTENTION. Last night I set my alarm so that I could wake up before the sun and spend some time with this question and I want to explore the vastness and maybe even the danger of it with you in this session. But before I invite its magic, I want to first just put out there in this space that EVERY TIME we step into the realm of soul we risk losing ourselves to a wilder reality. I think that’s the nature of inner work or discovery itself, to drop us out of the auto-responder tendency of life and into the messy, untamed world of the unknown. Soul work is shedding old skin so we can make room for what’s new. There is always something new and higher available to us, but without that risk of losing what’s not working anymore, we won’t see the wonders of what’s possible. Mary Oliver said it like this: “When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms…. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.” So what does that look like for me, to be a bride married to amazement? How can I be a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms? And this question: What does it mean to be fully alive?