Here I am with my father's sculpture, Spirit Woman, which stands majestically outside the museum on the island of Alonissos in Greece. Over the past few days, I have been drawn to this photo, and now I know why — it is the form that honours this formless Freedom Wisdom I received yesterday:
What Love has been carved into this representation of the Spirit Woman. What appreciation of the yin energy has been offered through this work of art. I hold such awe for the light within this marble. My father, the sculptor of Spirit Woman, first spoke of this light he senses within stone. For a while, I was uncertain what he meant, but I now understand that he was tuning-in not to a torch kind of light, but to a wondrous free-flowing energy — an energy that allowed him to carve what was required, at that time and place, within him.
You see, through Spirit Woman, my father shares his appreciation of the feminine within him. He shares his appreciation of the dualism that makes him human. Too often, we deny the opposite aspects of our Being, favouring that which is deemed more suitable for who we are born into. But that which we are born into is not who we truly are, for who we truly are is Love. Who we are is beyond the yin or the yang. Who we are is the favouritism of nothing. Who we are honours the ALL. So my father, perhaps without even recognising what was underlying Spirit Woman, was, indeed, freely honouring the all.
Within me and within you and within the all is an intricate divide of energy that perfectly supports humanity and perfectly respects the harmony required to breathe our truth. Deep, dark aspects of our Being belong to the yin. The yin is our intuitive understanding of Perfection within. The yin honours all that we are, not through shouting or force or demands, but through whispers, through gentle awakenings, through the formless within us.
Within our heart we have a complicated beat of freedom. It beats to remind us of our limitations but also to remind us of the unlimited echoes of who we are. You see, a beat has two aspects: it has the pulse, the outward pulse, and it has the rest, the rest between the pulse. Can you understand how the rest is the yin and the pulse is the yang? The rest is the Being, the pulse is the human. Through the rest, we appreciate the spacious freedom that we are. Through the Being, we understand the nature of our truth. 2
So much I can share upon this Wisdom, but to return to the yin worshipped through Spirit Woman, we must evaluate not the pulse, but the rest. We must honour not the human, but the Being, and we must allow the intricate dualism within the all to simply shine, as my father did when he worked actively — which is the yang, for the yang is the doing complement to our Being — to reveal the yin within.
My Spirit Woman has taken a seat within me as the queen, and she honours so incredibly the yang for allowing her the freedom to be. And the yang takes great pride in respectfully honouring the queen. He understands that he is not a lesser than by supporting the yin, but that he is a divine soldier honouring the Love that we are, for it is the yin energy that stimulates the birth, into the yang, of our truth.
The yin births our Brilliance, and our yang honours it when we are aligned with our Being. The yang allows our truth to be outwardly expressed. The yang supports our Being, not by actively instigating our truth, just by actively honouring our truth. Our yang holds our truth; it doesn’t birth it. Our yang reflects Brilliantly the yin at our core. It offers you the opportunity to experience all that you are.
But your doing must, at all times, align with your Being, for if there is a discrepancy between your Being and your doing — if your doing is driven not by your yin at you core but by your mind — then your Being becomes duller within. And by duller, I mean that you are simply not shining the fullness of who you are, for when you are blocked by the illusions of the mind your Brilliance has not the freedom to simply be.
In conclusion may I offer you this: Upon your birth, you were a light, and upon your death you’ll return to that light. How you shine between that time depends upon your freedom within. You can choose to be dull, or you can honour your Brilliance, and you can allow one gracious pathway to freedom if you simply abide not by any rules, but by your trust.
You see, your trust is the one pathway to freedom. Your trust is the one divine honouring of the All. Your trust is not the language outside of yourself, but the voice of truth within. When my father completed trusting himself within, he completed the Spirit Woman without. Have faith in who you are above all else because who you are is Love.
My father divinely trusted in his Wisdom within, and this trust freed him from any expectation of any outcome of particular importance. It allowed him to simply shine in a way that was truthful at that time. The purpose of Spirit Woman is yet to be revealed, but that does not mean it is yet to hold within it an enormity of power.
You see, the power within this sculpture is resonating outwardly, at all times, freedom. There is freedom resonating outwardly at all times from this sculpture, just as if it were speaking volumes of allowance of the All within, just as if it were shouting from the rooftops of allowance of the All within, just as if it had a crowd before it, hanging onto every word spoken about allowance of the All within.
This sculpture, Spirit Woman, has power beyond the seen, beyond the known, beyond the comprehension of our humanness, for the power of Spirit Woman is the power of freedom of All that we are within. And my father, without his comprehension, released from his Being an enormity of presence of Love, and one day, that Love will be not just appreciated, not just understood, not just recognised; it will be intensely welcomed within the all, for the all will awaken to the Love that they are within, and the all will begin to comprehend that their yin within will birth their Brilliance without.
And then this sculpture will be recognised for what it is: a harbinger of a realisation before its time. A seed offered freely from a force beyond our comprehension that just needs to be nurtured at all times within us.
Thank you.
Kirsty
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