10.2.2024 at 6:30PM
Speaker: Tyler Butler
I am sold safety for the price of my freedom. No one taught me that I have the ability to create a sense of safety from within.
I exist and have an opportunity to experience the majesty of being alive. There always will be danger. Once I’ve determined that I desire to live and that life is worth living, then life truly begins.
I suffer more in imagination than in reality. That doesn’t mean my suffering isn’t real. It is real for me. The wonderfully complex organism that I am is capable of creating an inner world that torments me or one that uplifts me. Usually, it’s somewhere in between the two.
As I bring more awareness into my life, I begin to learn to let myself sit with stronger and stronger feelings. As I learn to willingly confront my own inner fears, my own resistance to feel, I allow myself to experience what I’ve been repressing. It’s in the experience, that we have the opportunity to heal, to cathartically release our bonds.
I am still in danger and will inevitably die. I hope I’ve allowed myself to live before I go.
