Waking Up in a Busy World: On Brokenness and Separateness

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
L.R.. Knost (Children Rights Advocate and Director of family consulting group, Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources)

I stole another quote from Tara Brach today. My bad. In my own defense , when I hear a quote I like from someone else, I will look it up and try to find it in a couple of other resources so I see the universal nature of it. Tara Brach opened my ears to these words, and reflecting on them opened my heart. I owe that to her.

Hmmm! So what did I learn from these words and the other great insights Tara Brach shared in her video , Your Awakening Heart Is calling You? Maybe this:

Einstein Said

Einstein said it is an optical illusion...
your separateness,
and therefore your separate, lonely brokenness.
Though it seems you are
constricted and small,
so unlike the others,
as you hide out in dark corners,
clinging to shattered pieces
of who you thought you were,
protecting tender flesh from the bullies,
you are so sure are lurking about
waiting to taunt, tease and attack
what is left of you....
it isn't real.

Einstein said you are a part of something greater...
than this small curled up
"me" you identify as,
that flinches in fear with any movement of shadow,
retreating deeper into the dark depth
of your established corner
and that trembles with the vibrations of unfamiliar sounds
while fisted knuckles holding onto broken remnants
go white with desperation...
You are not alone in your vulnerability.

Einstein said you must free yourself...
by stepping bravely out of your corner
even though you quake and shiver
without the protective warmth and familiarity of it
and slowly open your eyes
beyond the darkness and the hurt
to what really surrounds you.
Deeply breathe it in
to every cell
and into each broken piece
you hide behind.
Inhale the living creatures,
the whole of nature,
all its beauty,
and all its pain ...
until it is all One infinite field within you.
Then breathe it out
into the endless space
that holds us all.

Einstein said you must realize why you are here ...
and know that you exist,
not for some puny individual purpose,
but for all the others
hiding in their corners,
holding onto their brokenness,
afraid of the shadow you cast over them.
Recognize the faint whisper of longing
that calls to you from the depths
of your pain, their pain,
and begin your walk towards the other corners,
shining your light softly into them
with your gentle request,
"Teach me how to be kind
and to know what it is like to be you."

Einstein said that it is an optical illusion...
their separateness
and therefore their separate lonely brokenness.
Help them to see...it isn't real.
Mend yourself...
and the world with your willingness to Love.

Of course I didn't get all the Einstein quotes from the video...only the one "the optical illusion of our separateness" which kind of became the poem and thus led to me going to Brainy quote to find quotes that would relate to what Tara Brach taught. Interesting how it turned out lol.

Anyway, it is all good.

Tara Brach ( July, 2020) Your Awake Heart is Calling you (Redux) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGE68zj_690

Albert Einstein Quotes from Brainy Quote https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/albert-einstein-quotes_