I understand and accept that from time to time you and I will fail at this.

There is something deeply heartbreaking in the profound rifts we have created between each other. The heartbreaking pain of separation.

Deeply troubling too is the increasing binary separation between the spiritual and the non-spiritual, the awakened and the non-awakened, the constant ways to bring duality and opposition instead of seeking a new way beyond this. A third way that is so rarely explored in today’s world: An ancient way of balance, harmony, and truth.

Those false narratives (false as non-carriers of ultimate truth) provide often solid ground to justify further separation and harms, while preventing us all to truly heal our collective and individual wounds.

A long time ago a precious elder taught me an immense gem of wisdom: we cannot keep the pain of the world outside of the circle. Outside of “our community.” We cannot. That it was the “modern” (yet false) narrative of separation that had us believe that there was a “me” independent of “you.” An “out-there” independent of “in-there.”

He said, “if you do good work, whatever is out there, will show up in there.” By “there,” he meant community, circle, and self. All being ultimately one complex being as connected as every cell of my body. Let me repeat it “if you do good work…