Sacred Uncertainty

 

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 poems and her mandalas, 'The Fire Of Darkness.'