Mary O’Malley – Spaciousness. Let what that word evokes fill your whole being. Perhaps say it out loud in a long, drawn out way.
This is how you feel when you have just fallen in love and your loved one can’t do anything wrong, even if he or she squeezes the toothpaste from the center! Nothing seems to bother you. Why? Because your heart is open and you have stepped into the world of spaciousness. Now, six months into the new relationship, it drives you crazy that the toothpaste is not squeezed from the bottom. This is because your conditioned self takes over again bringing tightness and reaction instead of spaciousness.
When you were very young, you lived in spaciousness. Life danced through you. Then slowly, as you reacted to the challenges in your life, you got tighter and smaller until you ended up in a bubble of struggle. This is where most people live, cut off from being fully alive!
We all long to be awake to Life. We long for the spaciousness of being, for it is our natural state. In order to see this, recognize that Life loves spaciousness, in fact, it permeates Life. Take a moment to open to the vastness all around you.