“I arise in the morning,” wrote essayist E.B. White, “torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it.”

He was speaking to both our capacity and condition, and our willingness to embrace the duality within. Our news is infused with the suffering of ’cause’. And we, at times, feel powerless in its presence.

We are born into this life unmarred by the narrowing of opinion. In this space, we are bathed in the warmth of the boddhisatva’s light. At this age, there is no suffering – rather, only an absence of joy.

“If we have no peace,” Mother Teresa once shared, “it’s because we’ve forgotten that we belong to one another.” As adults, our efforts are largely inwardly focused. We seek what provides the means for our release.

Meanwhile, the child within runs towards another tears hoping to effect the sanctity of peace. And with each experience of love we are drawn nearer still – into the ‘heart of one’.

“All is flowing and blending,” Dostoyevsky writes. “a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth.” Reminding us that we are never truly alone. Rather, we are the growing depth of consciousness – a light that shall never pale.

In peace, my sweet friends…

Namaste ❣