The Danish Girl
Watching The Danish Girl brought up thoughts about change. How true change does include death of the old identity, with consequences: One’s social group changes, relationships with family change, feelings of guilt and shame can come up because one is no longer pleasing certain factions.... along with feelings of relief and freedom and hope. We have to deal with other people's anger and disappointment with us.
Change always entails death, and yet, at the same time, positive change is actually not a death at all, but the release of a life that has always been there, hidden or stifled. Deep down, no change has happened at all. The secret true self that has always been there, that has always been alive somewhere in the shadows - it simply emerges. The old façade “dies.” The stale shell is discarded and crumbles away.
Whether something so obvious as a sex reassignment surgery or something subtle and unseen (such as an attitude toward oneself), the process is the same. Something that has always been there unfolds while other, outer parts “die.”
We are going through an epic swirling era of change across the planet. Pray for the true self that is born with us-our light, our life, our wisdom-to prevail across the globe in all nations, all cultures.
-Athie
Change always entails death, and yet, at the same time, positive change is actually not a death at all, but the release of a life that has always been there, hidden or stifled. Deep down, no change has happened at all. The secret true self that has always been there, that has always been alive somewhere in the shadows - it simply emerges. The old façade “dies.” The stale shell is discarded and crumbles away.
Whether something so obvious as a sex reassignment surgery or something subtle and unseen (such as an attitude toward oneself), the process is the same. Something that has always been there unfolds while other, outer parts “die.”
We are going through an epic swirling era of change across the planet. Pray for the true self that is born with us-our light, our life, our wisdom-to prevail across the globe in all nations, all cultures.
-Athie