Enlightening Enlightenment

“To be your truest Self means truly loving life, and truly loving
life is to adore it in all its emulations – the bad as well as the good;
the painful as well as the peaceful. It is to sink into those moments
when everything you hold dear has seemingly crumbled away like
burnt paper in your hands, when your throat is filled with the silt of
sorrow and your eyes are over-welled with the tears of rage. These
are the times that all come to know at one point or another – the
times when grief sets in so heavily that you can't stand up for the
weight of it, and you wonder how you can even brief under its
massive cloak. And yet these are the times when you are allowed to
become your truest Self – for these are the times when you can take
that sadness-laden life gently between your palms and stare boldly
into its tear-stricken face. These are the times when you can look
gently at that face – look gently at that life – and say: Yes, I will
bring you with me anyway. Yes, I will love you again – by loving
all those shedding similar tears.” ~ inspired by Ellen Bass
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