Daily Signet
Enlightenment is not a brain-wave rate. It is not a meditative, theta state that allows other-worldly insights to infiltrate the thinking and generate an intellectual euphoria. Both before and after enlightenment, the call is to “chop wood and carry water” as the Zen saying goes. To bear light—to make known the gift of life we have been given involves creative acts that take grief and give it art, take humiliation and give it resilience, take the everyday care for a child and give it joy, take pain and turn it into empathy, take anger and turn it into right action, take poverty and turn it into grace. These creative, courageous acts give currency to the Imago Dei in each.
Benjamin Martin
