The journey is amazingly simple at heart...
Striving to be as free and as wise and as loving as we are able... summoning the courage to freely do the loving thing, and... gathering the wisdom to know what the loving thing is! I've observed that we are regularly given clues as to the way we should go...
But, like Dorothy on the road to Oz, we often do not recognize nor appreciate our dreams and sacred symbols and their ability to empower us to get back home again.
Unfortunately, the pain and sorrow we carry deep in our hearts acts as a break to keep us from moving in the direction of our heart...
We habitually respond out of fear of being hurt or a need to hurt back. Most of this is going on deep inside and not consciously chosen behavior. Thus the need for us to become aware of the pain and sorrow deep down and to set about the work of reclaiming it and transforming it, slowly, into something beautiful, meaningful and good. And this is the heart of the matter.
Soul work:
taking something which is considered worthless and transforming it
into something
more precious
than gold.
The alchemists of old referred to this something as the Philosopher's Stone.
This is what sea glass is to me...a bit of "worthless" glass which has been smoothed and polished by the sea until it seems to glow from within by its own inner light. A symbol of our inner work and the process by which we are transformed.
I've been collecting stones and sea glass for as long as I can remember.
I began carving stones and transforming the sea glass into works of art and pieces of jewelry around eleven years ago. The story about Finding Woman came to me in a dream about the time I began carving stone. It is as potent to me now as when I first dreamed it.
Finding Woman took a walk into dreamland
in search of an answer to a question she hadn't yet formed.
She came upon a vast pool of water in a dimly lit cave
and dove to the bottom of this liquid darkness
where something caught her eye.
She scooped up a handful of stones which seemed to glow
with their own inner light.
Upon surfacing she knew, with that deep inner knowing,
the question: "Where have I hidden my sorrows?"
And she immediately understood that within her hand she held the tears of her long forgotten sorrows.
The Journey
Tears from the Deep
Genuine Sea Glass Jewelry by Cindy Kuhn
From deep
to deep...
tears once lost in the sea now found...
help the heart to reconnect...
with tears too deep for words.
