enlightenment isn't just for people who are meditating with mala beads or practicing yoga and eating only organic.
preaching isn't just for people in churches with parishioners or evangelists online with live stream services.
we can all teach words of wisdom and acts of love. we can all raise the collective vibration. it doesn't matter where we stand, sit, sing, or eat.
many times the best word we can offer is by living our life and allowing others to actually see us.
none of those in clergy collars are perfect, no matter how large their congregations are.
none of those in robes are perfect, no matter how many hours they spend clearing their minds.
none of those writing self help books are perfect no matter how many times they are quoted.
and none of us are perfect no matter how hard we try to be nor how hard we work to make it look to others as if we are.
and i think that's where enlightenment is.
love is the movement
and it's not about perfection.
it's about embracing the imperfect, nodding with empathy, allowing the circle of comfort and sacred peace that enters the space when we admit that we understand the struggles because we, too, struggle.
it's about holding one another graciously through the battles and honoring the divine in each of us.
the more we can accept ourselves with both guts and glory,
the more compassion we will have towards others,
and the more compassion we have towards others,
the more this world can become its own healing place.
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