Stop Searching
Stop searching for the way forward
You only prolong the process
Instead, sit quietly and listen to the space between spaces
The silence within silences.
Do not seek to be enlightened
Like the stone, wait for the rain to change your shape
To move you to where you have not been
If you become truly still, 1000 years may pass
Like the blink of an eye
And you will awaken on the shore of a distant ocean
Where you only hoped and prayed you would arrive.---
We spend so much energy hoping to get other people to react in a certain way. All our frantic reaching, our driving toward our goals, it's all based on the premise that our worth is based on how the "world" sees us. But that world doesn't exist! The real world doesn't see our accolades and achievements, our money or our clothes. They don't even see our bodies the same way we do. Go ask a tree what it thinks about your career choices — you won't hear an answer! But if you ask a tree to show you how it feels about you, and you can let down your mental barrieres for just one moment, you will feel something. A tree's individuality cannot exist outside of the whole. They can express themselves in their uniqueness, but they cannot become that uniqueness at the expense of the whole.
If we follow in this way, learning to let down our barriers, deconstructing our narrow view of who's opinion matters, listening to the plant peoples and the animals, the wind and the elements, we will begin to discover who we really are.
Wild, free, full of life, and made of love.