When we’re cut off from our inner knowing, or don’t trust it, we’re not able to access our own life-force with ease.
This can look like being successful but burnt out, or super busy but unfulfilled. It can feel like chronic brain-fog, confusion, and exhaustion.
It’s like hiking up a mountain with a backpack full of rocks. As we learn to trust that knowing within—the voice of life-force, of sexual, creative energy and how it speaks to us in particular—that pack of rocks becomes a jet-pack; we’re fueled by our own innate power, rather than striving against it.
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To be fully human is to feel this longing—not just for a lover, a home, or a purpose, but for something we can’t quite name—because in doing so we feel the distance, and therefore the meeting, between the divine and the human, the infinite and the embodied.
When we repress our longing, we numb ourselves—not just to pain, but to pleasure. We become afraid of wanting too much. We associate longing with lack. We try to fix it, fill it, solve it.
But our longing does not want to be solved. It wants to be felt.
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I love that the path-of-deepest-darkness, which is also the path-of-longest-duration, is called the path of totality: as I write, people are hurrying towards this 73-mile-wide band that at once bisects and unifies the nation, not horizontally or vertically, but diagonally, from coast to coast, propelled and bound by that which makes us capable of evolving into our highest (total) potential as a species: curiosity and wonder. Wonder and curiosity are the seeds of innovation, awe, and reverence, which in turn spore connection, love, and redemption.
Could we, then, in the wake of the heinous hate crimes proliferating both at home and abroad, witness a timelier natural phenomenon?
Could we, while navigating our own messy lives—our griefs, longings, addictions, mourning, regrets, shames, and sorrows—pay homage to a more significant natural act?
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