The mystical journey is full of paradox and this means we can often be surprised by bliss.
Who would imagine that the more the sense of separation dissolves, the greater our vibrant flow of individuality?
Who would expect that the very ingredients of our suffering (in the space between one form and another) can suddenly surface as the bliss of touch?
Who dares hope that a sense of estrangement can unfold into a heart-felt beauty?
The illusion of separation is made energetically of the pain of rejection. And here is perhaps the most notable paradox of all.
In our striving to belong, we tend to reject the pain of rejection. When we reject that living pain from our experience, we actually feed the pain, and it increases. When we reject rejection, we get more rejection.
The invitation to unity is to allow moments of pain, because in that pain we become enriched. It cuts through the essence of True Nature, deepening and unravelling illusions of self. When we let pain live within us, we begin to integrate; to become truly whole; and to relax in the shorelines of universal need.
This simple agreement with all experience can bring a fall-back into peace; a merging with True Nature; and a precious embrace of all we are in a collective moment of the momentous.
