It is said that the Kingdom of Heaven is inside you. But this is nonsense. What is inside you is the doorway that you can open to walk the path in the direction of Heaven. The way to the Kingdom of Heaven is inside you. The Kingdom of Heaven– and if we want to get technical about this, the Aramaic word Jesus used was actually closer to Queendom– is the Source context, from which we have fallen out of relationship. The reason that the way to it, the way back to it, is inside you, is because what we have fallen out of, fundamentally, is the experience of safety that opens the dooway to connection, through which we can experience inwardly (interoception) our intuitions of relatedness to All That Is. What we have been walking you through, this entire time, is the set of doorways that can lead you back home.
And I mean Home, home. Capital H, home. This is not a religious formulation, but it would be hard to deny that it is spiritual, because the sense of belonging we are seeking is indeed Sacred. A sacred sense of belonging. The bonds of relatedness that we long to experience, and that are actually required for us to be Well, are ropes of relatedness. And these ropes are made out of energy. They are woven from energy. We weave them through relating.
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