Meet it with Silence – Mindfulbalance

The Feast of All Saints

Our struggles are not separate from the luminous vastness within each of us.

We don’t get rid of struggle to discover this open space; nor does its discovery necessarily rid us of our struggles.

The riddle of the obstacle is solved not by pushing it away or by holding on to it, but by meeting it with silence and by discovering in this meeting that sacred ground, which upholds both joy and sorrow, both struggle and freedom from struggle.

When we realize this, we will struggle less with our struggles, and we will have solved by our own silence the riddles that guard the doorway into the silent land.

Martin Laird, Into a Silent Land