Thank you for this, Chris Jordan. So compassionately and wisely said.
I also resonate deeply with Francis Weller’s words: “The work of the mature person is to hold grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them.”
There is so much to grieve. So much. May we channel our grief in ways which strengthen our connection with our hearts and with the sacred thread connecting us all. 🙏 Molly
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| Photo @ Chris Jordan. Imprint left by a dove that crashed into a friend's studio window, 2011 |
The depth of unconscious psychological material that is built into these increasingly disgraceful political events is truly mind-blowing. Deluded and psychopathic minds encounter each other like naked Emperors-with-no-clothes in a grotesque public brawl. Unacknowledged feelings of anger, rage, self-hatred, desire for revenge, father issues, mother issues, fear of the feminine, fear of the other--all meet on a battlefield that is completely invisible to them, and 100% based in un-healed ego. The consequent suffering of innocent beings in the physical world is already unmeasurable, and all the more tragic for the fact that none of it needs to happen.
As part of our grounding, I believe it will be increasingly important not only to stay in contact with beauty, but also with grief. As I have said in earlier projects (my film Albatross is all about this), I believe grief is not based in sadness or despair; it based in love. Grief is a felt experience of love for something we are losing, or have lost. It is a doorway home to the deepest part of ourselves, where our wisdom and compassion reside. Grief is not an easy feeling to contain, as it requires us to touch the very heart of our mortality. May we find the courage to bear it together. Wishing you peace today.
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