Finding the Space
The day is cool and skies are grey. This is what they call June Gloom weather - but it's May. The temperature sits at 58 degrees. Today is Monday.
The week has been full. Double rainbows, the shifting universe signaling a new reality and aurora borealis dipping into our part of the planet. Thanks to the generosity of friends, we find peace and love.
This is a turning point and finding space is the quest. So many things are moving in all directions and the choice you make to engage in one thing or another is what will lead to the space you must occupy. In these times, there are options that clearly affirm or deny the reality of our interconnectedness. There is more evidence of this fact that is entering the awareness of every day people whose every day lives are being upended.
It took the Covid pandemic to make people begin to see part of today's reality: nation state borders are a delusion, human tendencies to find fault and blame too often outweigh the need to share and to serve up delight.
The choices made by individuals who are in many societies' positional leadership roles seem to have had huge impact on creating suffering but very little impact on creating paths to peace. There is a need to find people who are capable of being demonstrating that there are more ways to be in the world than what is offered in the dominant narrative of a quality life in today's modern world.
That little virus made the world wake up to the fact of insignificance of political affiliations, religious or non-religious practices, and the ultimate irrelevance of material possessions and wealth when it comes to life and death. That virus just wants to live and it will find ways because it is not shackled by wrong-headed thinking that humans seem unable to shake off. It is creative, intelligent, flexible, and unburdened by convention.
It may seem that money can buy alternative options that seem attractive. But what we learn is that there is only an appearance of a greater number of opportunities to prevent injury or death - and in the end, there is no way to avoid the last departure. So what does this mean for living fully?
It means it is important to find spaces that affirm life, that expand the foundation for spiritual growth through relationships with people, with the planet in its most natural state, with the experience of sharing, giving, receiving both things and no-thing. It is realizing that the space is always now and that the only thing you need to do is see with more than your eyes. You can turn away from the people and events that create suffering, or you can go into those spaces knowing that it is that choice that opens your ability to also experience joy and love in life. One does not exist without the other (no suffering, no joy; facing great suffering means experiencing great joy after going through it). In denying or refusing to see the downside means you will never have the chance to see the upside. Find the space that is the opening and you will find the place to be. That's truth.