Tonight, we pass through the Winter Solstice. What happens to us when this great shift takes place? When the movement into darkness turns around?
The return of the light sounds very dramatic,
and I am more and more interested in the how this light actually emerges in our everyday lives.
I see it these days as the possibility, in the field of relationship, for small, courageous acts of change.
Not just with our partners or our lovers, but in all of our relationships--with family, friends, and community.
With ourselves, and with the world. With life, and with death.
The mind wants to take these great leaps forward, to experience immense breakthroughs, with no turning back.
Look at the Solstice-how slowly the light comes back.
The basic sanity we are longing for in our relationships is like this: The moment when I refrain from giving advice, because I realized you never asked me, and I am not the expert on your life.
The moment when I let you know how vulnerable I am feeling, when I am used to being the competent one, the one who keeps it all together.
The moment when I take my attention away from you and how I want you to be, and turn back to my own immediate experience in the body.
The moment when the bitterness and regret in my heart for all the things that never happened opens up,
and allows a drop of deep grateful sweetness.
To turn toward the light of our awareness, our true nature, does not mean we turn away from our humanness.
Not at all. We become more and more real, less and less bound to our fantasies of perfection.
This is the movement of our collective awakening. This is the place where we can all meet, and discover that it is never to late to change, It just happens so much more slowly than we imagined.
Like the tortoise, instead of the hare.
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