"You shall receive whatever gift you may name, as far as wind dries, rain wets, sun revolves; as far as sea encircles and earth extends."
__Culhwch and Olwen, from The Mabinogian (trans CM)
How many times since childhood have we pondered our heart's desire3? When we were young, we grasped the notion of bountiful giving and the granting of wishes very easily from the folk and faery stories that we read. In our growing up, we begin to struggle against the denial of heart's desire. As adults, most of us have given over even contemplating it.
The heart's desire is not an illusory or unachievable ambition if we can suspend our adult disbelief. The true heart's desire is an integral potentiality, a germinated seed waiting to manifest. So what prevents us from achieving it? Our lives may be littered with unresolved and undeveloped wishes, all of which block the way to our true heart's desire. If we are to achieve the core of our wish, we must first rescind and cancel our immature wishes, unless, of course, we still wish to grow a monkey's tail, obtain a rocking horse, drive a steam engine, or marry Elvis Presley! We must cancel our old and immature wishes by calling them back and revoking them, along with other idle wishes we may have uttered and since forgotten. Then the way stands clear.
If we can commune deeply upon our true heart's desire, rather than upon our fantasies, if we can envision it with every cell of our body and call to it, then we send a true song to make the pathway between ourselves and our heart's desire.
"What is your heart's desire? Which former wishes are preventing you from attaining it? Cancel them, as suggested above."
[From: The Celtic Spirit by Caitlin Matthews]
Thank you for this.
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