I sincerely don’t want you to feel helpless and exasperated while you’re treading down the path into Self.
For a journey that opens our hearts to compassion and kindness, simplicity and patience, unwavering and fierce love, we somehow manage to do an almighty fine job of showering ourselves in harshness and complication. And – the greatest tragedy – we can become skeptical about the very Divine Love that we get a glimpse of in perfectly present moments of time and space.I remember when I first became aware of the concept of ‘ego.’ I felt so liberated and held by this new knowing that I wasn’t who I seemed to be. That I wasn’t my conditions, my moods, and most importantly (and thankfully) I wasn’t my thoughts. That, to me, came as a relief of epic proportions, and ever since discovering this life-changing morsel of wisdom – that I am not who I think I am – I’ve been re-wired.
As my world continues to shift from Who I Thought Tara Was to Who Might Tara Really Be?, it’s been harnessing myself onto such acute and all-encompassing fascination that’s made this experience a total joy.
It has not been painful. It has been confronting at times; take-my-breath-away confronting. But not painful.
I has not been hard. It’s been challenging to front up to what the moment may bring, but staying the same is infinitely more difficult than growing and changing.
It has not been results-focused. I will be happy when I can manifest/ meditate for an hour/ feel at one with the Universe, etc. No. Goals don’t belong on this dusty path. There’s a time and place for goals, but not here, not on this plane, where manifesting, meditation and oneness all belong sacredly to right here, right now.
Sometimes our quest for an answer steals us away from the beauty of the question.
That’s what I want to have brief chat about today. Press PLAY and let yourself (and your ego!) off the hook!
Know what I mean? We don’t have to look for meaning, or a sign, or guidance in everything. Sometimes, it’s enough to simply notice the space between you, and what you’re looking at.
That is presence. That is yoga. That is what it means to know your being-ness.
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T xo
Perfectly put! A lovely gentle way to relate to our challenging ego and to gently step into our true self and allow answers to gracefully arrive when we’re ready. Love your work Tara! Thank you muchos xxx
LOVE. IT! Thank you sweetheart xx
So good, thanks Tara. I’ve felt that paralysis many a time trying to ‘dissect’ the big E. No need I realise now. x
I was just talking with Steven about this kinda thing last week!
We were chatting about how we can feel really shit when we’ve had a tough day with the boys and KNOW what we’ve perhaps parented in a way we don’t want to.
But what we realised was that the fact that we can RECOGNISE that this is happening means we are able to acknowledge it and move on.
I said to him, “What if we didn’t even realise that that wasn’t the best way to deal with the situation? That would SUCK!”
Yup, that’s wasn’t so good. Well done for seeing that. Let’s try something different next time.
Vari xx
I love the concept of simple observation and letting go. So often we get lost in the analysis of the ego and we begin to let the thoughts of it cloud our ability to let go.
Love your work!
Trust has really been a big thing for me at the moment. I feel a really strong intuitive voice inside me to say yes to knowing that trust is present. Trust to me means that the lesson will come with time, with ease (it might not be so obvious, but it slowly seeps in gradually). Trust to me means that I can sit back, observe without judgement to appreciate the moment in it’s beauty and perfection completely. I love this concept of letting the lesson unfold quietly – rather than opening up each instance as another reason for us to “analyse”, “scrutinise”, “work out the answers”.
Nowadays, I am constantly reminded that even when I feel anger, resentment, frustration or sadness, everything that I need right then and there has been provided to me. It gives me this unshakable sense of being supported – knowing that everything will just work out beautifully and that I don’t need to find the lesson to be moving forward.
This is a beautiful post Tara – I loved it!!
Thank you Tara. I love hearing from you!
Yes yes yes! Tara u are a magic babe bomb xx
Thanks, Tara. I soooo enjoy your video posts. Very helpful in a gentle and loving way!
I love that you care.
Thank you Tara!
Osho has a lovely take on this I think:
Don’t call it incertainty – call it wonder.
Don’t call it insecurity – call it freedom.
Life is never a problem. It is a mystery to be lived, loved and experienced.
Bless you – you are amazing!
Mmmmm you are SUCH a wise young lass. Loved this XO
Thank you Tara, :-)
It totally landed on me… exactly what I needed to hear today… with the intense solstice energy, many things came out to the surface… and was feeling overwhelmed with the trying to understand…Loved it!
One of the reasons I find this to be such a lovely concept is that for so many years I fought against myself. It wasn’t necessarily a fight against my ego, because I didn’t really have the spiritual vocabulary that I do now, but I felt like everything about me was just *wrong*. When I learned the difference between the ego and the “real me”, I didn’t feel relieved, I felt overwhelmed, like “Oh great, here’s another thing about me that I need to fix.” And then the last few years happened. They are my “Phoenix rising” years because what started out as the shattering of my life became a beautiful rebuilding. Now I do recognize the difference between my ego and my true self, and as it happens, the last few months have been an extraordinary time of just letting my ego be and acting from a more heart-centered place. Your tip on just noticing it will fit in beautifully to this new practice of mine. Thank you, Tara!
Absolutely true. I find it’s very easy to get caught up in the vicious cycle of overthinking what something means, then questioning the ego and questioning some more.
Awareness that the ego is even there can be a beautiful and big step.
By the way, you look extra light, happy and glowly in this vid Tara.
Love x
Yup. That landed just fine. :) Writing the message down. :)
YES! YES! YES! YES! I love you… that is all xoxoxoxoxoxoxox