Fumbling Around In the Dark
Oct. 20th, 2011 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
When we care, we receive the truth that lives beneath words…
It's easy to love those who are already bathed in the light, those whose troubles are small, whose own hearts are light and bathing those around them in the same universal love – those that don't necessarily need love, (though you show me such a person if one truly exists), the real challenge in being a loving human is in caring when the one before you is one of those who are in the dark. They may be there through no fault of their own – though who is to judge what is 'fault' and what isn't? They may be there due to circumstance, or accident or illness. They may be there in the dark purely through the perceptions of others; it shouldn't really matter why they are there. What should matter and drive the behaviour of our hearts toward them, as loving humans, is that they are in the dark, and need our love and care.
What's also important and perhaps the hardest part of being a 'loving human' is to continue to care even when we ourselves are in the dark. Yes my friends, that is the hardest thing…
…and right now, well… I'm past caring. That alone should tell you where I am right now.
As the moon brings sun to those turned from the light, the opened heart brings love to those struggling through darkness.
When we care, we receive the truth that lives beneath words…
It's easy to love those who are already bathed in the light, those whose troubles are small, whose own hearts are light and bathing those around them in the same universal love – those that don't necessarily need love, (though you show me such a person if one truly exists), the real challenge in being a loving human is in caring when the one before you is one of those who are in the dark. They may be there through no fault of their own – though who is to judge what is 'fault' and what isn't? They may be there due to circumstance, or accident or illness. They may be there in the dark purely through the perceptions of others; it shouldn't really matter why they are there. What should matter and drive the behaviour of our hearts toward them, as loving humans, is that they are in the dark, and need our love and care.
What's also important and perhaps the hardest part of being a 'loving human' is to continue to care even when we ourselves are in the dark. Yes my friends, that is the hardest thing…
…and right now, well… I'm past caring. That alone should tell you where I am right now.
