Don't Seek...

If You Don't Want to Know

“Offer me an opening no bigger than the eye of a needle, and I will widen it into openings through which wagons and carriages can pass.”

Midrash Rabbah, Song of Songs 5:3

Once we put our foot on the path of consciousness, there's no turning back. We can try, we can deny, we can stall and prolong, but it's a waste of time. Once we knock, once we give a tiny opening to the awareness of what is, a river rushes through and sends us head over heels. Our predictable black-and-white, right-and-wrong, us-and-them world blurs into many shades of gray.

When we shift our focus from all we want, we clearly see all that we already have. After we realize that God is no more “out there” than “in here,” we must change the trajectory of our prayers. Once we see all of the inhumanity, and inequity in our world, we understand that kindness is the only thing that makes sense. The refugee becomes our child, our brother, our sister, and not our enemy. Once we observe the brutality in our streets, in our environment, in our world, and realize that we, ourselves, are participants, whether active or passive, it becomes harder to place blame so adroitly on others.

Consciousness is not comfortable. It was never intended to be. So, don't knock, don't seek, if you don't want to know. But, here's the rub: waking up is the only road to hope, to change, to reality.

                                                                      In the Spirit,

                                                                            Jane