“Think of the people you’ve interacted with today and think of how often, how frequently or infrequently, you remembered the light that is in the center of the container. It’s as if the body is the holder of the light, and often the holder or the container is so opaque that you can’t see the light. And people keep saying to you, I am the container. When you remember, you say to them, “No, you’re the light.” And they say, “No, I’m the container.”
But now look at yourself through today. How often did you remember today that light that is the center of your being? How often were you quiet enough, or was there a pause long enough, for you to remember? Because unless you can see your own light, how can you truly see another’s? For it takes a light to know a light.
Who did you meet today? Did you meet partners or children or parents or business people or people asking for money or social workers or kids or troublemakers or politicians or newspaper vendors? Is that who you met? Or did you meet the light in all its various ways of being contained?
Any time of the day, you always can come back to the breath. Bring the breath as if you are breathing out of the middle of the chest, and with each breath brighten the light that sits in the middle. Soften. Warm. Brighten. Let the light shine.”
