26/01/2024
🥀 “No Wound Is Ever Silent”
“There is no one regardless of how beautiful, sure, competent or powerful ~ that is not damaged internally in some way.
Each of us carries in our hearts the wound of immortality.
We are particularly adept at covering our inner wounds.
No wound is ever silent.
Behind the play of your image & the style you cut in the world, your wounds continue to call out for healing.
These cuts at the core of your identity cannot be healed by the world or medicine, or by the externals of religion or psychology.
It is only by letting in the divine light to bathe these wounds that healing will come.
The tender kindness of the Divine knows where the roots of our pain are concealed.
The divine light knows how to heal their sore weeping.
Every inner wound has its own particular voice. It calls from a time when we were wronged & damaged.
It holds the memory of that breakage as pristine as it’s moment of occurrence.
Deep inner wounds evade time.
The soreness is utterly pure.
These wounds lose little of their acid through the natural transience of chronological time.
If we dig into ourselves with the fragile instruments of analysis we can destroy ourselves.
Only the voice of deep prayer can carry the gentle poultice inwards to these severe crevices & draw out the toxins of hurt.
To learn what went on at the time of such wounding can help us gently; it will show us the causes, and the structure of the wound becomes clear.
Real healing is, however, another matter.
As with all great arrivals in the soul, it comes from a destination that we can often neither predict nor anticipate.
🖋 John O’Donohue ~ Eternal Echoes
🖌 Artwork with gratitude
