Be the Shelter
The moment you connect fully to a cause greater than yourself, you become greater.
When the eye of your concern is turned from your small problems, the recursive narrative of your woeful story, and out into the world, of need and noise, your eye begins to truly open.
The moment your cup is no longer outstretched, desperate to be filled with the shame of your asking, desperate to be quenched, and you understand how important it is to fill your cup so that you may better pour from it, does your cup begin to overflow.
The moment you realise the lights of promise and hope you are looking for in the world are like unlit lamps waiting for the oil of your vulnerability and the flame of your courage, you realise that ‘enlightenment’ is a verb and not an adjective.
Your sorrows and your heartaches came to teach you a gentleness and a awaken in you a sense of stewardship for those who have not yet found their way.
It really is time to turn the eye of curiosity away from the neurotic self-diagnosis, and to look out from where you stand, and take stock of how incredibly empowered you are right now. Everyone is looking for leadership. Actualisation is the leadership of self.
You don’t need impossible courage, you just need enough:
We do not need to have all the answers, we do not need to know how to solve the whole problem, all we need is enough courage to put down our raw and impotent empathy, dust off our compassion and accept that all we need is just enough courage to go first, to speak first.
This time, no redeemer is coming, no Buddha will turn the wheel this time. We also cannot keep scapegoating one another and still fool ourselves that our judgemental rage and sanctimony is a substitute for actual help.
Step up. We need just enough courage to get angry at the right things.
Be the shelter.
No One Else Is Coming.