Radical

A radical act is one that deviates from established norms and conventions. A radical act calls us out of our comfort zone and propels us into a life that we have been afraid to step into. A possibility that is always kept on the horizon, some far away potential zone where we someday may take a voyage out to, but we aren’t really sure. To take a chance on ourselves, to do something different that may lead us toward a life of liberation, is terrifying because it means we have to accept responsibility. To realize our potential and accept the challenge to grow, we must take responsibility. The most radical act is the act we take against our own defenses. The internal defense mechanisms that have protected you throughout your life, keeping you safe, while you had to sacrifice being yourself.

There is still time to redeem yourself and take the next radical step that would lead you towards transformation. The radical act of loving yourself when the whole world makes you feel lonely and misunderstood. It is an act of rebellion to perform a ritual, lend a hand, apply an art form, or practice a skill. If you’ve doubted yourself your whole life and held yourself back from doing what you love, there is still time to take that step towards freedom. Maybe you don’t know what you love because curiosity was suffocated from your life force, like breath from your lungs, from the moment you were born. If that is the case, you can still come to life, now, in this very moment. Not some far away place in the future, now. However, it takes every ounce of your being to make a radical shift happen in real-time. Don’t worry about approval or proper structure, just go. You’ll find yourself along the way, weary wanderer.

Radical acceptance of where you are. Radical acceptance of what is. Radical acceptance of what life has presented to you. Radical love for your life. Don’t make it make sense. Don’t explain yourself like some label on a ketchup bottle. You are not an item. You are not a machine. You are a living, breathing, loving, evolving being. The radical act is to awaken every day and find a way. Find a way amidst the distraction and bustle of life to create, to feel into your precious existence. The world distracts, but it also invites us in. And what seems like a hindrance may actually be a grand opening, a mystical invitation—an innovation in ways of living. The annoying couple next to you, the emails from work, the customer who is rude, the baby crying while you are trying to write, welcome them all and see them as just parts of the dance of creation. Open your mind. Open your heart. See what these children’s cries, these disturbances from work, these rude voices, may be inviting you to. Could every experience be fuel for your awakening? If you are caught in thinking of the way it should be, then of course it’ll all look wrong. But if you begin anew each day and see the value in everything, then you can never go wrong.