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“How can you be truly living through your soul and your spirit’s intention, and have that devoid of love?” — Roberta Boyce.
Resonant World #122
I can’t think of a better time of year to share a dialogue on the power of the heart.
The Enter the Way of Wisdom sessions that I held with Dallas Gudgell and Roberta Boyce have been among my highlights of the year.
This fourth and final exploration in this series brought forth insights that feel as fresh to me now as they did when we met some months ago.
The best way to absorb the energy is to listen to the above recording.
If your time is short, then I’d like to offer a snippet from our exchange on living with purpose — a core concern of my work in Resonant World, and its sister publications
(with ) and .We could spend a lot of time debating ideas about ‘purpose’: Do we have an innate purpose? Are we free to choose our purpose? Might ideas about purpose obscure deeper truths about the nature of existence? And so on.
Roberta cut through this kind of speculation by observing:
“Purpose without love surely is not purpose.”
Roberta added:
“Your purpose comes from the heart, otherwise it is not your purpose. That doesn’t mean that it’s got no value, but if you really are truly seeking out what your purpose is in life, then it is also how you are going to give the most love. How are you going to be authentic in the giving and receiving of love?”
In all the talks I’ve heard, and all the retreats I’ve attended, that have addressed questions of life purpose, I’ve rarely heard such a deep truth spoken so simply and directly.
Each of the four dialogues offered its own kind of nourishment, but Roberta’s commentary on love and purpose seemed to me to be a pivotal moment in our process — and was perhaps the message that I had most needed to hear.
Dallas spoke for all three of us when he concluded our dialogue:
“My heart is full and overflowing — in a good way. There’s so much possibility with this kind of love — the Big Love — and having our heart space opened, and connecting with that, the possibilities are endless. I’m feeling gratitude, and excitement.”
Those feel like resonant words with which to close this first series of Enter the Way of Wisdom.
I wish everyone an equally resonant Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Other themes we explored in the heart dialogue included:
What does it mean to open, speak and live from the heart?
The heart space as a doorway to spirit
Egoic vs heart-centered seeking on the spiritual path
Engaging in difficult conversations
How trauma distorts our perceptions
Cultivating self-compassion and “pre-forgiveness”
Physically dropping into the heart space before speaking
Role of the heart and ‘Big Love’ in Dakota cosmology
The heart as receiver for the ‘Love of God’
Heart as the mediator of energies from heaven and earth
Gatherings of minds vs gatherings of hearts
Hearts forming networks of collective intelligence
Heart as a mediator of ancestral connection
Role of the heart in processing trauma
True purpose comes from the heart
How Dakota prayers honour interconnectedness
There is no true power that is not love
Thomas Hübl’s observation that precision is love
Roberta’s Work Featured in Hello Magazine
Can Crystal Healing Strengthen My 15-year Relationship?
Previous Entering the Way of Wisdom Dialogues
Resonant World #107: Way of Wisdom Dialogues Part One, The “Self”
Resonant World#109: The 'Relational Tai chi' of Flipping Triggers into Presence”
Resonant World#111: Aligning With the ‘Healing Intelligence.’
More About Roberta and Dallas
Roberta offers one-to-one sessions and group work via her Essential Sacred Self systems to activate deep and lasting transformation via her gifts as a channel and crystal practitioner. Her work centres on dissolving limiting patterns and creating structures of self-support in which to thrive.
Dallas offers services including life coaching, energy healing, individual and organisation consulting and professional development consulting, and cultural competency training.
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