May 28-B, 2023

Everything falls into place around clarity.

Clarity is the product
of emptiness,
stillness, 
and silence--
and the relentless practice
of asking all of the questions
that beg to be asked,
and saying all of the things
that cry out to be said
in each situation as it arises.

This brings to light
all of the conflicts,
contradictions,
dichotomies,
and polarities
that have to be recognized
and reconciled,
or borne consciously
as mutually exclusive,
antithetical contraries,
forever sources
of the legitimate agony of life
that is our lot to carry
with grace and compassion
throughout our days upon the earth--
thus reconciling ourselves
to the irreconcilable facts of existence,
letting it be because it is,
and going on with our life,
anyway,
nevertheless,
even so,
without allowing it to prevent us
from doing what needs to be done,
when, 
where
and how it needs to be done,
every day,
all our life long.

Our parents are always our parents,
for example,
our background is our background.
How we live with that,
how we deal with it,
and what we do in spite of it,
tells the tale
we are here to tell
with our original nature
and the virtues/specialties/gifts
that come with us from the womb,
in being who we are,
no matter what,
here/now
always. 

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