The other week one of my dearests heard me say to someone else,
“Oh, Ganesh?  He’s the remover of obstacles.”

He halted all convo. So quickly, in fact, that he startled me.

Waved his arms up in the air, loudly and emphatically said,
“WHOA.  What?? Who is this??”

(This man is a Manhattan CEO, btw.)

“Ganesh.  You know.  Ganesh, the Hindu god.  The remover of obstacles. He has an elephant head.  Sits on a lotus a lot.  Yogis talk about him a lot.  Ya know, Ganesh.”

This dearest has had a particularly trying year.  One of his worst.  That’s putting it mildly.

“Why didn’t you tell me about this before?  You’ve been holding out on me?? Why didn’t you tell me there was a Guy I could ask to remove my obstacles?!”

“Um…  Haven’t you wondered what the, like, half dozen elephant statues are in my apartment?”

“No.”

“Don’t you remember me talking about Him in my awakening course?  I talk about Him all the time.  Jeez babes, you’ve taken it twice!”

“No!  I can’t believe this.  Where do I find this guy?  I need one.”  He was surprisingly lit up and resolute about it.

Needless to say, I gave him one of my mini Ganesh and we laughed about it.  I’m pretty sure he carried the little bronze Indian icon to his office in Midtown East.

A month ago I was on a panel and there was a woman who spoke up.  Now this woman was super deep, connected, in touch.  One of the highest vibing people I know.  She offered a realization, not a question:

“You know, I am just starting to see, I can’t escape the dark side, the suffering, the ugly parts.  I see that I need to let it be where it is and there is nothing I can do to affirm or move or shift it away.  I have to embrace it to transform it.”

It surprised me to hear her say this because that is the main tenet of what I teach.  It’s the core of everything.  It’s also pretty opposite to a lot of what’s out there in the spiritual marketplace, because let’s face it, that’s not really the sexy sell.  This bright, gorgeous woman had taken our course two years ago, and was a serious student of her own development, yet she was only just now understanding it on a cellular level.

Which reminded me:

It only clicks when we’re ready. 

The Universe’s truths and secrets revel themselves to us in waves and layers and tidbits.  In realizations and epiphanies, in mundane practices laying out to immeasurable landscapes of understanding and flashes of white hot divine lightening in an instant changing us forever.  You never know when or why they are coming, and this, this is why we practice.  This is why we investigate and delve and hope on.  Because we had a taste and we know Its there.

Or because there are people that came before us saying, this works.
Trust me.
It’s true.
Here take my hand.
Don’t believe me.
Just be willing to believe and come and see for yourself.

You can run, hide, cry, scream, try to tear down the work that came before you.
But it will come around.
Because your Soul his longing to know him or her Self.

And you know what that looks like?

Absolute clarity.
Glowing everything.
An end to personal suffering.
Effortless presence to you and everyone in your life.
Natural compassion + love that’s not a practice, babe.  It just becomes WHO YOU ARE.

We are restless until this Realization.
In a way, Life only begins after it.

We will still reach and expand and soar, but without craving or need.

Until then, that restlessness keeps us on our toes, so that a CEO will find himself grasping a Ganesh or being 25 years older than everyone else in a downtown hot yoga class.

We will look for that guy, that falafel, that martini, Homeland, the apartment, the newer svelter hotter bod to fill us, and it will, until it doesn’t.

So the restlessness comes again.

We will find ourselves Ohmmmming and stretching and sitting on floors and falling into dance and falling into tears and falling into Love. And it is all so beautiful and wide and never-ending, ever expanding.

Be willing to embrace uncertainty, and the heavens will open.  Even just be willing to be willing to be awkward and wrong and hurt and angry and just that awareness causes a shift.

The restlessness is there to stir you to reach.
It is kept out of reach to stir up the restlessness.

There is a perfection in this exchange.  A Supreme, Divine perfection and not a gosh darn morsel less.

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If you’re in NYC this weekend, I invite you to come witness this in action.  My intention is to always have words infused with juju, but there is nothing, nothing at all that comes close to experience.

And if you have someone near the city who you think could benefit, advance thanks for sharing the info if that feels yumalish to you! xx
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