“ONLY LOVE CAN OPEN AND HEAL OUR HEARTS” a poem about how to open your heart to get sweet love flowing again
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The SPIRITUAL SOUL By Chinmayan
THE DAWNING LIGHT—Daily Journal of Transformational Writing
Volume 8, Issue # 860 for Saturday, March 30, 2024
JOURNEY OF THE HEART Section # 510 Poetry and Love Songs by Chinmayan to inspire you to open your heart and spirit to LOVE
All images in this issue courtesy of Pixabay
ONLY LOVE CAN OPEN AND HEAL OUR HEARTS “There is nothing more painful Than living our lives with our hearts closed— Because we have been hurt when we were Reaching out for Love and were Rejected or betrayed or scorned or ignored And the pain was so great beyond bearing That we shut down our heart to protect ourselves From being hurt again, but even then our spirits Long to be sharing love, giving love, receiving love… Which cannot happen until we realize that living With our hearts open, while consciously learning to Love ourselves first, is actually the only solution And safety that we can ever have in this world.” —Yeshe Gyamtso Most of us are living our lives With our hearts tightly closed by all the Painful things that been done to us by those We believed would always be loving and caring… Or by the taunts of bullies and the cruel and nasty things Done by those we believed to be our friends… And the thing is, we have been living This way for so long that we are no longer Aware of what it feels like to open our Hearts in love or even remember how to do it, Because with great pain comes lasting fear, Which is meant to protect us from being hurt again, But actually is a prison that only we have the keys to, Is a poison that kills all the joy and goodness of life. I have lived in that prison and drank that poison For many years in a place of darkness so deep that All my hopes and dreams slowly withered and died, Until I realized that though its true I had been Grievously hurt in ways I never deserved, That it did not have to be a life sentence living in Those dark dungeons and that only I held the power To defeat the demons of despair and darkness, That only I could release myself from this Terrible prison of my own devise… In that moment, I stood up and shook off Seeing myself as a victim and tossed away my Painful past like old and rotting clothes… In that moment, I realized that I could step Into the sanctuary and freedom of this shining present And I understood that to live I had to learn to Love and care for myself, to make myself my Own best friend who I can trust absolutely— In that moment, I woke up from the nightmare and Began the long journey out for hell and into the light For I know beyond any doubt that only when My heart is open and kept open can I say I am fully alive, for we were all born to love, For only Love can heal, only Love is true and Only an open and loving heart can know God And bring us the fulfillment we long for and deserve. December 3, 2022 Still Mountain Retreat
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
AN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL andUPLIFTING SONG FOR YOU!!!
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“The Climb” by Miley Cyrus with complete lyrics for easy singalong
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
“Only Love can open and heal our hearts so that can can give, share and receive all of the Love that is here for us…”
—Yeshe Gyamtso