The Infinite within fires up freedom

November 8, 5:38 PMSpiritual Living ExaminerMarlena Rich

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“When we are alone and quiet, we are afraid that something will be whispered in our ear, and so we hate the silence and drug ourselves with social life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

We Americans are a lonely lot, and perpetuate the condition through a multitude of social options. We invite the media into our homes like best friends, whether it be the friend we would actually choose should we give that idea a reality check. Masking our innate quest to discover our own thoughts, feelings and sense of truth, we are lost without Eros, the impulse to evolve.

The first step in cultivating solitude is to face the terrifying loneliness, going straight into the heart of those lonely feelings and self-sooth our own frightened soul. When we begin to enlarge our sphere of compassion for ourselves we develop capacity to do so for humanity as a whole and ironically, in being present with our own loneliness we find that we are not alone at all, but a part of the whole of creation.

We are lonely because of losing touch within; in solitude we become fully present with ourselves and can derive strength from the transformation. Inside this absolutely quite place we have opened the door to the Infinite within, outside of mind, with that which exists outside of time. Elizabeth Debold describes this place to be a part of the Big Boom, and that the same impulse of creation is consciousness emerging through us. When we surrender to life as an instrument of consciousness, transparently vulnerable, we open the floodgates of consciousness burgeoning new paradigms of relationship through us.

Author of Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women (With M. Wilson, and I. Malavé),  Debold’s work has been formative in my life as a mother of a girl who is growing into a great woman. With an optimistic approach to modeling for and growing with our girls, she has forged a strong path that crosses multiple generations with her courageous work, both as an academic and a woman.

The change we need for our world will not come from one leader, one technology, one great idea, but must come from each of us as we increase our awareness of the web of powerful consciousness that is pushing the tipping point toward the new world of love. We are all connected and we have a choice.

“After more than two thousand years of struggle toward equality, what freedom does the deepest spirit in woman yearn for now? Dare we risk liberating ourselves from these habits that are so ingrained in our cells and psyches? It’s monumental—a different kind of liberation of consciousness that challenges each of us to confront and transcend the psychic habits of the past in and as ourselves. In this, women may indeed hold the keys to cultural change. Standing together as women, holding the spirit of our courageous foresisters in our hearts, we can shift the core dynamics of dependence on men and separation from women that have held our culture in place. Then we can join with men in a new way to take equal responsibility for the planetary crises we face and, together, give birth to a radically different future.” – Elizabeth Debold 

 
The Next Women's Liberation: Elizabeth Debold
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