Enligtenment, Colaboration, and Coalition.

I don't know what the relationship is between surrender and responsibility, between empowerment and humility, or between learning to create our own reality and learning to let go of control, but I know that for me, this relationship is what life is all about--the dance between these seemingly different ways of seeing and being. And I think that maybe enlightenment is just a moment or moments of understanding this relationship, and that it wouldn't be a thought or word thing, but a heart and spirit thing--a moment where all the seemingly diametrically opposed truths would appear as perfectly intricately arranged continuities--a shimmering landscape whose many colors catch the eye differently at different moments, each leaping forward and waning in its own special time as the sun moves across the sky.

This is what life is for me right now--learning about the relationship between letting go and diving in, between taking responsibility for my life and what I create and surrendering to the beauty and struggle of what is. And the process of learning about this reminds me of other truths that dance together--the relationship between boundaries and connection, between autonomy and interdependency, between the individual and the collective community. between structural forces and personal experience. Maybe like enlightenment, collaboration, communication, and especially coalition is only possible if and when we can hold these things together in our hearts and minds--if we can conceptualize them all as true.

This is what I had to say tonight after walking alongside a moonlit lake reflecting a midnight blue sky.