YOU DON’T NEED TO SAVE THE WORLD
Resting as consciousness, you come to recognize that the world is not separate from you—the world is in you. As you deepen into this recognition, there’s a purification of the world in you.
It’s as if you start to ripen—like a fruit on the tree that basks in the constancy of the sun. You ripen naturally—the light of consciousness is cooking you up, so that the fruit can effortlessly drop off the tree. It doesn’t have to be plucked or cut off—you don’t need to be violent toward it.
At the right time, the fruit falls off the tree. It’s like a wine that takes time maturing in the barrel in order to taste good. Or like a chickpea in the pot that needs to be boiled to a pulp so it can then be absorbed and assimilated.
Your capacity to be intimate with the world, with all its brokenness—without having a story about the world—is the ripening process.
It’s the maturation of awakening that allows the light of consciousness to flow through you and into your functioning in the world.
True awakening is not about detaching yourself from the world, it’s not about rising above the world—it’s a natural by-product of having the world totally metabolized and metamorphosed through you into the nectar of love.
You do not need to save the world—because now, you are the light of the world.
An excerpt from ‘Falling Open in a World Falling Apart,’ p: 124
