The Challenge of Vulnerability

Vulnerability is meant to be challenging. If it was easy, why would we need to exist? We could have stayed unmanifested in the love of universal oneness or manifest on Earth as another animal species that is more aligned with its natural state of beingness. So, why would the cosmos need humans?

It is through being human that the spirit of the universe can experience the poignant beauty and humility of surrendering to the intense fear of wholly being seen and unconditionally loved in a self-aware and conscious form. To reach this state, we need to accept our vulnerability to pain. We are at a time in humanity’s evolution when the stories we’ve created about who we are—our identities—can no longer hide our world pain. Some people will want to desperately hold onto the old world through more identification to greater elaborate stories. Some will numb themselves with distractions, while others will resort to manipulating other people’s truths. But all of this is merely the ego’s attempt at self-preservation.

Can we still find the sacred souls beneath the self-denial, the lies, the stories, and the illusions? If we peel back the layers and see through the lies, what is left is the tenderness of our human vulnerability. Our ability to feel pain can kill us, but it is also pain that can save us. So, when we come up against an enemy, someone so cruel whom we think we can never forgive, look past their facade and find that vulnerable human inside of them. The one who is so afraid of their own pain that they cannot even bear to recognize its sacred beauty. They may never recognize our truth, but our vulnerable hearts will recognize the one that they have abandoned and ours will grow even stronger.