Each moment offers us an invitation to presence—an invitation of rest and love to hold the experience which we have stumbled across.
Despite this ever-present opportunity, we reject the invitation to peace from a deep feeling of inadequacy. We hold ourselves from our own intrinsic nature, instead focusing on seemingly anything besides this moment.
We begin to see the greater harmony at play when we embrace these experiences with open arms, allowing ourselves to feel whatever will arise in a given moment. Not forcing, not rejecting—just holding and embracing; allowing ourselves to be consumed in unity.
Doing this not only provides us with clarity on the problems we perpetually play through in our minds, but also bleeds to our interactions with others. Our openness to acceptance creates a foundation for trust and compassion to be established amongst the smallest groups of people, and from there to greater dispersion.
Our pathway to truth arrives not in our thought, but our acceptance and embrace of the happenings around us.
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns…We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.”
— Tara Brach