I’ve been trying to live the following spiritual truths:
- once you accept something fully, then it can change
- know your shadow, and it won’t destroy you
- kiss a frog, get a prince
These principles all have metaphysical, practical and experiential merit. And, I know they “work” in real life every time I use them. Life gets better. Love wins.
But I just can’t— for more than the slipperiest fragment of a split second —make myself feel anything resembling acceptance or willingness to embrace this administration. Yet, I feel it must change. People are getting hurt. Good people.
And. I can’t seem to shuck my responsibility as a spiritual being (who claims to want peace, anyway). It is so much easier to criticize, easier to fight alongside my resistance friends, mock, separate. But now, the collective cues that the shadow is upon us, are growing way too ridiculous to ignore.
Perhaps there is still the tiniest of hope this is all just one big joke?
The ‘shadow side’ of American capitalism –unbridled greed– is writ so large on the world stage right now. This shadow makes dark grooves appear like war lines; and divide our (previously huddled) masses into poverty, confusion, anger and unrest. Religious intolerance seems to have ruined rational minds, and angry lines are now forming foreheads of many ‘good’ people.
So murky is this shadow time, that standards like “truth” “integrity” “loyalty” and “friendship” have become ‘alternatives,’ not principles. Was it the glimmer of gold that made some think he was a prince? That all will be better now? Really?
All I can see, though, through my darkened anxiety, is the friggin’ frog. And it is unbearably ugly.
Am I the only one who feels we are living the most monumental story in history?
One that can end horrifically, or beautifully? Only we can’t escape this story-line, or go back to the day before we opened this chapter? No matter how much we try? Do I have to make a deal with this dark beast? Do I have to kiss the friggin’ frog?! WTF.
Help us all know our shadow so it doesn’t destroy us. Then give me strength to accept the darkness — and be one of many —so we all might move ahead, clearly, fearlessly, better.
Thank you @sirmitchell for truth and humor.
