I have the feeling that the way we interpret the events of life has reached its expiration date. The mind keeps running the same circles with effort, following what lived experience and our level of awareness make available. And yet, nothing can really be approached anymore in the old, familiar way. At the same time, in most of our situations, a new perspective—a new way of understanding and acting—is not yet accessible.
Precisely this is what makes it such an interesting stalemate. If someone is expecting the key to the solution here, they will be disappointed. Like most people, I do not know it either. And if someone has recognized within themselves the quality of understanding that belongs to these new times, I believe that this belongs only to them. And that is as it should be. It is not certain that the whole process can be learned from others, or that the keys to moving forward can be transferred.
But this does not mean that we are left alone. Quite the opposite. In these situations, there is nothing left but trust and faith. In what—or in whom—that is, is each of our most intimate, innermost affair. Finding the deepest humility within ourselves, opening our hearts, we ask to recognize what we do not yet know. We ask without expectations and without conditions, and we keep asking until it happens.
I feel that this humility cannot be found in the hidden corners of our fear-filled, shrinking selves. It is found instead in that part of us which fully accepts the unpredictability of the moment, and which radiates steadiness, integrity, love, and dignity within it. This is our offering, our wondrous and unique gift to the Unnameable. For only in a very similar quality can the new paradigm become understandable.
So let us ask in the way only we can. And let us be ready to receive in the way only we can. There is no need to copy or follow anyone. The stories of our lives are wonderfully unique—just as our capacity to ask and to receive is unique as well.
I wish all of us a path filled with humility and dignity.
With love,
Your traveling companion
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