What is your commitment?
What is your inner vow?
For which aspect of your soul would you give your life rather than to betray it?
Here is mine:
I will always keep my heart open.
I will always stay vulnerable.
I will always allow my heart to spread and receive love.
No matter how many people hurt me, no matter how many knives I have to pull out of my heart, no matter how often I have to recover after an emotional letdown, no matter how many protective walls around my heart, that I build up in shock, I have to tear down again.
I will tear them down.
Each attack only makes me stronger, leading me to greater self-love and love.
Till one day, my intuition and my strong boundaries are so well developed through all this trial and error, that my heart feels safe with me and I feel safe with my heart.
If someone would force me to choose: “You can now decide to finally close your heart, admit that it is too dangerous to trust and to be vulnerable; otherwise I will kill you.”
I would answer: “Then kill me.”
I would prefer this one last second of being authentic and openhearted, rather than living maybe forty years in a state of separation and dullness, being buried alive.
No one will ever be able to close my heart.
No one.
That's why I am here.
That's what I can teach you.
That's the most precious gift I have to offer you.
What is your gift?
What is your commitment?
What can you teach me?
(Verena, RWYA)