The quiet place

by Lian Brook-Tyler

The quiet place

The loudest voices are often at the extremes, which can make it seem as though those are the only two views possible: it’s a choice between one side or the other.

But when I sit with people, heart to heart, as happens every day in the work I do, I hear a myriad of perspectives scattered all over the spectrum, though they share some things… they have more questions than answers, the stories of their lives drip juices down their chins, they have too much sparkling starlight and inky darkness to fit into a neat grey box of ideology, and beneath all of that, they have the same shared longing for belonging.

That human need for belonging can convince us that we need to cauterise our complexity and numb our nuance so we might pick a side, though there comes a point when our soul will stand for that no more.

If that’s you, then please know that you’re not alone, there’s more of us finding our feet on a path that wanders beyond the passing show.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”

doesn’t make any sense.”

Rumi

It’s just a little quieter here…

♥️

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