Fire is eternal. Fire is is purifying. We each have to go through a fire to burn our “ sins”, as is told in the ancient texts. Yet fire is more than just to burn. The same fire that breaks the weak is that which tempers the strong. A potter will only test his or her creation once it goes through a fire. To make it strong, to make it durable.
Yet the fire must first break us within. Our anger does the same, if uncontrolled. Life is like a fire. Its challenges are like flames to strip away the illusions of safely and security of the self. Some will endure the fire of suffering till it has reduced them to the core. It brings us to the amorphous ashes.
What emerges from the fire is what is waited for and most precious. Sharper, refined, resilient, unshakeable that makes us coveted. It is wise to not seek refuge from the fire but use its energy to become what we are born to be. It is the flame that lights the path as we are all then born from the fire.
To seek the truth we must first pass through the fire. The fire does not then destroy but reveals truth. That pain, loss all feels like a burning within. Yet each pain is an invitation to face our sacred self, to become authentic. Each burn is an initiation into purification, in order to break the duality and polarity and be reborn from chaos into creation.
Our own divine spark once revealed is that scorching fire. Gold was never afraid of fire but born of it. Remember that you are the one seeking the light but the same light that forgot its brilliance. We are the flame that learned to walk, create and live in the world, yet we forgot behind the masks of the illusions of our senses.
The forge of our heart is the space in which we burn the brightest. The heart cannot be destroyed, even though the mind makes it feel as if it is torn to shreds. It is the sacred heat of transformation that occura with every trial and wound that is faced. Burning away fear, pride, doubts, guilt and shame, all that remains is love and wisdom.
The forge opens more each time a challenge is accepted and dealt with. The forge is the open heart. The flame is you. That is what the fire reveals. Who you were meant to be. Love in all its forms is displayed brightly, as you.
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I love you
