In Presence

You can’t work inwardly without help. The biggest recurring trap is that you enter this work actively, with the intention to ‘do’ it. As soon as you reverse this impulse, things become possible.

You will need to find for yourself what this means. There are inner gestures of submission, apology, contrition that enable you to receive help. When I try to do this work on my own, by my own light, I feel the dryness of it. When I ask for help and acknowledge my poverty, I feel that my state becomes ‘juicy’.

As one of my teachers once said of this work, when you volunteer for service, you are given what you need to proceed. A janitor is not expected to work without a broom. You do not need to know what is needed. The work knows.