02/22/2026
We are far more expansive than our bodies, yet we spend our lives reducing people to our perspective of who we think they are.
We look at others and shrink them into our version of them.
But the practice of truly seeing life as it is…
is reverence.
Reverence for who I am.
Reverence for who you are.
Reverence for who others are.
And reminding ourselves —again and again— because yes, we forget.
We forget that we have no idea who that person truly is. And just because someone was unpleasant with you today does not mean that is who they are.
Your judgment only reveals the limits of your own perception.
It reveals how tightly you judge yourself.
To understand love in its fullness
is to understand that the human being in front of you is not separate from you. In fact, is identical to you.
It is you.
And guess what?
You are not your flesh.
Not your thoughts (shaped by culture, trauma, upbringing, and circumstance).
You are not even your mind.
Who we truly are is ineffable.
Uncontainable.
Something we cannot fully grasp.
Something that continues beyond mind and body,
beyond what we can see, beyond what we can understand.
There is so much mystery to explore.
So much vastness available to us.
And yet we spend our lives in trivialities.
We cling to the surface.
To the third dimension.
To the costume.
Expand as far as you can.
As far as you can so that the day you are asked to release your own body, you do so with grace.
If you cannot surrender to what you do not know, you have not yet understood.