Deep change only happens when we practice something different.

Learning a different way of being in the world requires repeated and embodied practice.

You can’t learn to swim by reading about it. Experiential awareness is essential.

Elite swimmers become world-class because they spend most of their time in water. They dedicate countless hours refining their technique, mastering breath control, and learning to reduce friction and resistance. In time, they cultivate a relationship with water that allows them to move in harmony with it—developing the skills and sensitivities required to become one with water.

In the same way, liberation from suffering only happens when we remove our resistance to the waters of life.

By letting go of the stories and images we have created about ourselves and others—and by accepting life exactly as it is, rather than the way we think it ought to be—the truth of who we are, beyond who we think we are, can emerge and take centre stage.

Freedom lies in how we relate, not in the who’s, why’s or where’s. 

“A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.”

Marion Woodman