If we deem the nexus between the individual and the collective as rooted in separation, then we will continue to perpetuate a cycle of illusion.
We choose ignorance over insight as we believe it mitigates suffering. We choose inadequacy over authenticity to keep us from looking within. What is familiar has become safe for many of us even if it means betraying all that we know to be good and holy. Fear has become a reactive response to life’s experience. The fear in and of itself is not a negative thing. How we carry the fear and allow it to demean our inner lives, how we allow it to demean our connection with others and with the Divine keeps us from experiencing that holiness. We are all at a crossroads, heaven and earth, in choosing to allow grace to permeate our lives the way that it is intended, not in the ways in which we feel safe in receiving it. Abandoning those thoughts that keep the illusion alive is something we can all do together. Receiving grace is perhaps one of the most sacred experiences of our humanity. Shall we begin?