Today's meditation from Shalen Harken's brand new audiobook The Prophetess

explores the profound and sometimes unsettling journey of transformation.

The process of a spiritual awakening

is like the natural struggles of seeds, coal, and caterpillars. Creatures that

resist change but are ultimately driven to evolve into something greater.

This process invites us to embrace suffering and vulnerability,

not to escape or achieve perfection,

but to cultivate a more compassionate

and authentic connection with ourselves and the world.

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Speak to us of Awakening and the prophetess spoke. It's okay if you're scared when you're opening.

The seed she was scared too.

Do you think the coal wanted to become a diamond?

She was scared out of her wits of change.

It took her 10,000 years to even be able to pray for it. The acorn was so closed in by the hard walls of his staunch beliefs.

Oh, how he protested becoming the Regal, generous oak.

Have you heard the Caterpillar's shrieks of resistance as some bigger force unwel

it to eat its own form while disclosing nothing of those secret wings. The only

difference in us from them is we have an even more stubborn resistance.

But ultimately we are impelled by the same irresistible force

to completely self-destruct into a new and improved yet to be discovered marvel. Do your best to allow this. You too were made for wings.

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