Nov 9, 2008, "...who looks inside awakens"A storm is blowing in over Portland this morning. Dreary weather by some standards, I know, but I am always grateful when nature makes her power known - it reminds me of what I'm made of, and fills the mundane details of the day with meaning. I have stepped back from the website project lately for a number of reasons. First, I have been called to other, non cyber - based responsibilities - the studio, my classes, my garden, my health. And I continue to struggle with the why of all this hard work I am doing, all this writing, at a place in my life when I don't exactly have a surplus of free time. I have also been rather consumed with processing and absorbing the events of the election. It is beautiful to be caught up in the celebratory whirlwind. But then it takes some contemplation to find balance again. Here is a quote that was recently passed on to me by a friend - she said it was from Carl Jung - "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens" So true. These are powerful times. What I urge you to remember, amidst all the celebration and anticipation around the leader we have chosen, is that he is but a reflection of us - as is the present administration. Of all of us. It seems that this time, we are reflecting expansion instead of contraction, the flow rather than the ebb. So do celebrate. Bask in joy if you feel it - I know I do. But try to keep one eye fixed inward, on the alignment of your own heart that brought this to pass. In the vision of tantra there is but one pulsing force - call it love, or god - expressing itself in myriad unique and individual forms, and making up what Douglas Brooks calls the "multi-verse" that we are. This is true regardless, but we make it more powerful when we become complicit with it. We awaken when we look inside ourselves because what we see there is that which we share with all beings - even beings who themselves choose not to look. Whatever our political or religious leanings - we are of one heart. And yet, it is our loving attention to our very uniqueness that guides us to that common center. We look within to awaken to our truth. To manifest that truth, to expand it into - is it possible - an external reality of liberty and justice for all, we look fearlessly and lovingly into the hearts of others, and see ourselves reflected there. Back from Who Looks inside Awakens to the blog Archive
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