Peace in chaos
From the archives (April 2020)
Amidst all the chaos, there is calm.
There is a quiet. A hush. Similar to the soundlessness of fresh fallen snow. But not quite.
It is different. Not quite as peaceful or silent. Not as still.
No.
This quiet is alive. It is also noisy with the wind whispering and the birds and the children laughing through windows. The squirrels chattering. The sea lions and harbor seals barking. The wind waves rolling and crashing.
There is a peace, a quiet, a hush but it is not silent or still.
It is beating. Throbbing. Almost bursting.
I have felt it at many points in my life, those moments sinking deep into my marrow, flowing my center, my soul, into and through the universe and then back to me again, slightly changed but still the same. This peace is above and beyond our living experience, and isn’t about the stress or pain or anguish we are also experiencing. It is a both and. The peace and the turmoil living almost in symbiosis, as if one (turmoil) gives life to the peace.
There is hope for us.
During the shutdowns of 2020, during the initial outbreak of the Covid19 virus, many of us took the time that was once directed toward outward distractions and focused it in. Many more began to see the ways we each perpetuate the violence we see in the world. The ways we each gaslight. The ways we each have made statements of spiritual bypassing. The ways we each have oppressed another for our own gain.
Many took the time to access more resources to do our own inner work. So we could further break patterns. Disrupt cycles. Do different.
It required us to be brave. To step into wholly uncharted territory. To face our fear of change and the unknown and liminal space and move forward into growth and expansion and liberation anyway.
It begged us to remember we aren’t doing this alone.
To remember our community.
To remember each other.
Six years later, the world seems to be even more of a hellscape than it was then. The genocides across the globe, the latest now taking place in Iran, in an area where we believe human civilization as we know it began. We are losing even more of our roots, of our history, of our humanity and of our souls. It is devastating and so many of us are feeling the helplessness and hopelessness that this latest attack on our very humanity is bringing.
But these attacks are not new. They have been a part of our evolution from almost the beginning.
A question is, will we learn and evolve? As we evolve in ways of destruction, will we also evolve in ways of construction? Will we learn that while destruction is a necessary part of nature, the ways we humans wield it are entirely unnatural? Will we listen to the earth as she screams at us through “natural disasters”? Will we find our ways home to each other?
Together we can bring the revolution of love. Of freedom. Of healing. Of restorative justice.
Together, each of doing our inner work, supporting each other and lovingly pushing each other outside our comfort zones.
So we can create the world where we are all accepted. We are all nurtured. We are all free. We are all loved.
A world where we have found our roots again. A world where we dig deeper into our humanity instead of trying to escape it. A world where we all recognize our place in nature, as part of her, not separate.
This is how we find our peace. Within and without. Finally seeing how we are not separate, we are all one.
This piece was originally published in April 2020 on insta. It has been revised for publication today.
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