May all love help us remember what we have forgotten: that we are responsible to—and for—each other. Not as a burden, but as a sacred inheritance. For in truth, we are cut from the same cloth, woven of the same mysterious breath, born of the same radiant Source. What we do to one, we do to all.
We move together—however slowly, however unevenly— away from the old wounds that once bound us. Away from the inner chambers of exile, where so many of us learned to live, and learned—falsely—that we were alone.
At the root of all our sorrow lies a single illusion: that we are separate. That somehow we have been cast out of love’s reach, and must now fend for ourselves in a world that has forgotten us. From this mistaken belief grows so much of our suffering—so much striving, grasping, blame, defense, despair. But none of it is true. We were never truly separate. We were never abandoned.
And so the call is quiet but persistent:
Come out of the shadows.
Not in one grand moment of awakening, but in the simple choice made again and again throughout the day. Every moment becomes an invitation—to leave the darkened room of self-protection, of story, of wound, and step into the light of truth.
The truth that we belong to each other. The truth that we are made of the same breath. The truth that beneath the noise and fear and posturing, there is a river of love that flows through every heart.
We are here to uncover that love.
To remember it.
To let it rise in us—not just as a feeling, but as a way of being.
And from that place, we begin to live differently. Not perfectly. Not always serenely. But with greater kindness. With a softness of gaze and an openness of hand. With the growing courage to say, “I will not leave you behind. Your pain is not separate from mine. Your joy is also my joy.”
This is the quiet revolution of love.
It doesn’t shout.
It doesn’t demand.
It simply moves—one breath, one act, one presence at a time—out of the illusion of separation and into the luminous, boundless truth of our shared heart.
We come bearing nothing but ourselves.
And that, it turns out, is more than enough.
Nigel Lott teaandzen.org
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