Uradiance

  Almost everything that comes out of certainty is ruthless, rigid, and authoritarian. Those who are certain of their truth are very dangerous, whether they're coming from the left or the right. I feel more at home in the satsang of the Uncertain, than in a party of true believers. Almost everything that comes out of Uncertainty is creative, fresh, newborn. This is as true in physics - the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - as in metaphysics. February daffodils, their yellow wounds of promise. Anger, a fire that is almost always about something else. The irony of mist, that lovely gloom. Saying goodbye. Uncertainty does not mean ambivalence, self-doubt, or indecision. It means response-ability in the present moment, for only Presence resolves the polarity of opposites. Our willingness to rest in Uncertainty engenders a profound and humble alchemy. The state of "I don't know" is the womb of revelation. Image: Rashani Réa, from the book of my ...

Advaita flowers in the play of lover and beloved. Every perception is a deeper kiss. Just to be awake is a wedding. Why not really listen to a vireo at dawn? Why not scent a wild hyacinth and fall into original wonder? There was another world before this one. It is still at your fingertips. We don't have enough words to say "love," so we have hands. We don't have enough hands to do love, so we have tears. We don't have enough tears to feel love, but we taste silence. Not even silence is vast enough to contain love, so we surrender. The soft morning rain has ended. The broken sun trembles at every fern tip like a morsel of bread, a memory of manna for wanderers. Now the vireo through its own voice returns from that world to this one healing your body with a song.