The Terrible and Beautiful Truth of Things - Jon Eden Khan

To be able to see this world and the people in it, including ourselves, through the eyes of the soul takes incredible strength and tenderness.

To see clearly how disconnected we human beings are. How broken we are. How much trauma and self-loss pervades our lives and perpetuates more trauma and self-loss over generations.

And to also see clearly how much real love, innocence, and beauty lives through us all nonetheless. Blessing so many moments with a remembrance of our true nature and the sacred glory of life.

Learning to hold both of these realities in their stark truth will break us.

Open.

And reveal the portal to initiation.

Walking through that portal is giving our consent to see the pain, struggle, beauty, and grace that is the truth of things, and feel it all at once.

To remember ourselves as divine souls whose forgetting of who we truly are is part of a great planetary journey of awakening in the blood, guts, and divinity of deepest matter that spans stretches of time beyond any of our capacity to take in.

When we can truly hold the terrible and utterly profound truth of this in our heart without turning away or being crushed by it, we are an initiate of Earth School.