Monday, June 15, 2026
Hopeless? Not so fast.
Totality includes both dark and light, and humans have yet to understand duality. We use words like total devastation, abject poverty, hopeless situation, complete evil, etc. These words seal our fates in a coffin, scaring us into overactive states which temporarily blind us from our unique adaptability and meta-cognition.
This blindness is called separation – or sin. It’s similar to the Latin word sine, with means without. With and without are one, however.
If you pause, your eyes will adjust in the “darkest” situations, and a narrow passageway will emerge. Emerge means to become manifest. Another way is examining the cliche, “Look at the bright side.”
The bright side of death is that suffering ends. We often forget that when the body wears out, its occupant will have preferred death to bodily life. Death is passage, continuance. My grandfather was 92, and when he finally surrendered, I imagine he was relieved. His body had expired, and the bright side was to leave it behind. Sometimes the bright side is leaving it behind, giving it up, and moving on.
The dark side is clutching, holding, running, and fighting. No matter how “bright” you are, there is a tinge of doubt, a tickle of anger, and a smattering of fear. And no matter how dark you are, there is an unseen bright side, a light often merely overlooked, a sliver of hope if you will.
Even in the darkest places, light glimmers. Light isn’t snuffed out, neither is darkness. First, it begins with adaptability – settling down. Then, the pupils dilate, night vision. Seeing the silver lining is your superpower. This is survival – seeing the bright side. Survival is not fighting, resisting, denying, or fleeing!
Adapt. Adjust. Settle. Darkness cannot cover totality. It’s just a narrow mind that seems to cover potential.
In despair – dilate, relax, and release. Adjust and see.
That’s faith, if not just a glimmer at first. In no time, the mustard seed becomes a blazing glory!